Team Building Game

Desert Survival 

It is 1:00 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon at the end of May. You and your teammates have just finished a two-day training in Casablanca, Morocco. You are all on board a chartered, twin-engine plane that is destined for Dakhla, Morocco, a small town on the coast of the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 1000 miles from Casablanca. At the beginning of the flight the Captain came on the overhead speaker and invited you to sit back and relax during the two-hour flight. The first fifty minutes of the flight were fine. Around this time the pilot comes back on the speaker to let you know that you are currently flying over the Sahara Desert and that weather reports showed a temperature high of 115 degrees. Approximately one hour and ten minutes into the flight, you hear a loud blast and the plane nosedives. Within minutes you realize that the cabin is losing pressure. When you look outside the windows, you notice that is dessert below is growing larger as the plane rapidly descends toward the ground. You notice that the only things you can see out of your window are some large boulders and miles and miles of sand. The pilot comes on once again to let you know that the plane has blown an engine and is therefore, indisputably, going to crash and so all on board should prepare for a turbulent, possibly fatal, crash landing. Within minutes the planes crashes and smoke and flames fill the cabin. All surviving passengers and crewmembers scramble to exit the plane before it explodes. Seven minutes after the crash, the plane explodes in a fiery ball that reduces it to rubble. With the exception of the airplane’s captain and one crewmember, you, your teammates, one flight crewmember, and the co-captain have all survived the crash. Now you must decide how to work together to survive the desert climate and terrain, get help, and hopefully make it out of the desert alive. On your way of the plane, in the few minutes before it exploded, you and your teammates were able to salvage the items in the list below. It is May and you and your teammates are dressed in business casual for the hot summer months of Africa. With only the clothes on your back and the items pulled from the wreckage, how will you survive?  
Rank the items below in order of importance and develop a game plan to help you get out alive.

 

 

In the following situation, your "life" and "death" depends upon how well you can prioritize items for survival in a relatively unfamiliar environment. This problem is fictional, although the ranking to which you will compare your results was done by a number of space experts. 

  The Situation

  You are a member of a lunar exploration crew originally scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon.  Due to mechanical difficulties however, your ship was forced to land at a spot some 320 kilometers (200 miles) from the rendezvous point.  During the re-entry and landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged, and, since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 320 km trip.

  Your Task

  On the next page are listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank these items according to their importance in aiding you to reach the mother ship, starting with "1" the more important, to "15" the least important.  You should assume that your crew is your class, you have agreed to stick together, and all 15 items are in good condition.

 

•Compass, magnetic

•First aid kit w/ hypodermic needles                   

•Flares, signal

•FM receiver/transmitter (solar-powered)

•Food concentrate

•Heating unit, portable

•Map (stellar map, moon’s constellations)

•Matches (1 box)                

•Milk (1 case dehydrated milk)

•Oxygen (2 50kg tanks)

•Parachute silk

•Pistols (2 .45 caliber)

•Raft, Life (automatic inflating)

•Rope, Nylon (20 meters)

•Water (25 liters) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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