Geography 1D Bay of Biscay Rescue Exercise ‘You need a protractor, and a ruler to do this exercise. A calculator would also come in handy. Very lightly shade the land area green and the water blue. Add a statement and line scale to the map. Here is a protractor is you are doing this ‘electronically: Scenario You must coordinate a rescue at sea. A boat with a badly injured crewman aboard is adrift. 4 distress calls come in and you record the bearings in the chart. You then ‘commence rescue operations. The time is 14:00 hours. 1) Determine the location of the boat when each of the distress calls was issued ‘© Draw pencil lines at the bearings given from the locations listed Draw a black dot where the lines intersect- this is the position of the boat Erase the pencil lines. © Take measurements and fill in the rest of the chart (for practice). : 2) Connect dots | = 4 with a dotted line. Measure the dotted line. How far has the boat drifted? Wom on pape 3) The boat drifts 10 km west of the final position by the time the rescue boat arrives. Plot this final position on the map. 4) Which mainland community is closest to the boat? ie 4 I leit fe, ie a on parry sit? 3.) cm km, What is the bearing from that community to the Scanned with CamScannerBAY OF BISCAY RESCUE 1 LORIENT 2 BANGOR 3. ST.NAZAIRE 4 PORT JOINVILLE 5 ST.HILAIRE 6 LAROCHE 7 NANTES —.z ¥:1000 000 Bay of Bi From Lorient From Bangor BEARING om! St. Nazaire From Port Joinville 142" 50° 1 Bs" 340° J 2 2 108° 240° BHI? Scanned with CamScanner