Stranded Dude with a lot of Stuff

-In this activity, all we had to do was list what we thought would be most important on a scale from 1 to 15 on items that we would salvage if we were stranded out in the ocean.

-1. Water
2. Army rations
3. Trasistor radio
4. Sextant
5. Fishing kit
6. 10 liter can of oil/petrol mix
7. 15 ft nylon rope
8. Can of shark repellent
9. Mosquito netting
10. 20 square feet of Opaque plastic sheeting
11. ONe bottle of 160% proof rum
12. Shaving mirror
13. Floating seat cushion
14. 2 boxes of chocolate bars
15. Maps of the Pacific Ocean

-I chose water and army rations for the obvious reasons that I believe that having sustinance are of the utmost importance. There were a few items that were difficult that choose like the fishing kit and the shark repellent.

-Our team agreed on water being the most important item on the list, and we also ranked maps of the Pacific Ocean the same also because they would have been useless in the Atlantic Ocean. we differed on the 10 liter can of oil/petrol because they found no use for it but I thought of making a wick and use the it as a light source or even to flag down a ship but we were pretty consistant for the rest of them, we differed on a couple and even if we did it was only by a few numbers. At first we just did the worksheet ourselves then in the end we compared and shared our reasons and made changes based on the collaborative agreements we came up with.

-My choices and the Expert's choices were almost completely opposite. He ranked the Shaving mirror as number 1 while I ranked it as number 12 so that surprised me the most of all the choices that he said. Also, some of the stuff he said made perfect sense and made me feel dumb for not thinking about it at first. Of course I consider the Expert's opinion valuable but I still feel that personal experience outweighs it just because you know what to do and how to do it rather than just based on what somebody else said or believes would be the best.