Food, materials, products, all the necessities that we need to survive on this island. But what is the point of bringing these materials here if they ships are destroying our islands. Cargo ships are the cause of oil spills. In recent years an 800ft oil ship spilled about 33,600 gallons of oil by Oahu. A 25 year old tanker lost 117,000 gallons of oil from inside and dumped on the Southwest of Oahu. One ship lost 2,200 gallons because of the ships themselves were not capable of holding that much oil.
Marine animals are being affected by this oil spill as well. Mainly the monk seals that are coming to our island to rest. They are being harmed from the ships spilling oil in the ocean. There was an incident when a monk seal was attracted by the frozen food spilled from the sinking ship, and the monk seals accidentally swam into fishing gear and got tangled in. 5,000 gallons of oil was spilled off of Barber's Point, and an abundant of monk seals were affected by it. NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) have 6 highly trained people to prevent wildlife being exposed to man made disasters like oil spills and hazardous materials.
Oahu has one of the most beautiful beaches on the world. And these beaches are being harmed by oil spills. Beaches is what makes Hawaii going so don't destroy it. 30 miles beaches on Oahu have been polluted due to ship oils spills. And not the ocean current on the beaches is spreading, covering up the whole north side of Oahu. Over 6 six beaches have warned people of the dangerous pollution in the ocean. And its not satisfying people. We have to do something about this.
Finally the Ocean oil spills must stop!! and come to an end. The ships that come into Hawaii has to stop and not continue to spill oil in on our island. The companies that bring in our stuff has to do something about their oil spills there losing money and were losing our island, a lose lose situation. Don't just stand there do something about it.
