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Lost at Sea: A Team Building Exercise

The document describes a team building exercise where participants are asked to rank 15 items in order of importance for survival after a yacht catches fire in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, leaving the passengers adrift without navigation equipment or radio. They must wait to be rescued in a life raft hundreds of miles from land. The goal is for the group to work together to determine the most essential items to survive until rescue.

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Lost at Sea: A Team Building Exercise

The document describes a team building exercise where participants are asked to rank 15 items in order of importance for survival after a yacht catches fire in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, leaving the passengers adrift without navigation equipment or radio. They must wait to be rescued in a life raft hundreds of miles from land. The goal is for the group to work together to determine the most essential items to survive until rescue.

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Lost at sea

A Team building exercise

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Lost at Sea
you have chartered a yacht with three friends, for the holiday trip of a lifetime across

the Atlantic Ocean. Because none of you have any previous sailing experience, you

have hired an experienced skipper and two-person crew.

Unfortunately in mid Atlantic a fierce fire breaks out in the ships galley and the

skipper and crew have been lost whilst trying to fight the blaze. Much of the yacht is

destroyed and is slowly sinking.

Your location is unclear because vital navigational and radio equipment have been

damaged in the fire. Your best estimate is that you are many hundreds of miles from

the nearest landfall.

You and your friends have managed to save 15 items, undamaged and intact after

the fire. In addition, you have salvaged a four man rubber life craft and a box of

matches.

Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance for you, as you wait to

be rescued. Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the

second most important and so forth until you have ranked all 15 items.

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Scores
00 - 25 Excellent you demonstrated great survival skills - Rescued
26 - 32 Good. Above average results - Good survival skills - Rescued
33 – 45 Average Seasick, hungry and tired - Rescued
46 – 55 Fare Dehydrated and barely alive - It was tough - but Rescued
56 - 70 Poor Rescued, but only just in time
71 -112 Very poor Oh dear, your empty raft is washed up on a beach,
weeks after the search was called off

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