Lost at Sea

My score was 6 points lower than my team. I could have helped my team more by thinking more about how some things, even if they are listed, have no uses. I believe that our team could have come up with a better score if we had thought more about the multiple uses of many of the items. I noticed that when I looked at the coast guard rankings, they had categorized and prioritized everything. They classified every thing in a different group such as food, water, or signaling, and then decided which group of items was the most important. In this instance they decided that signaling for help was the most important, then water, then food. My group and I were focused more on the practical and immediate uses of the items and not on signaling for help. This is what hurt our group score the most. Next time we should consider not only how things can be used to survive but how they can be used to get rescued.