This report was developed as an aide for the Coast Guard and Hawaii maritime community to use in making risk management decisions. It also provides a means to analyze operating procedures and target specific areas to avoid future oil spills.
Goals Reduce the number and volume of oil spills.
Additionally, due to the geography of the Hawaiian Islands, every oil spill has the potential to eventually reach ocean waters. Although more than 1200 oil spills were investigated, only 446 originated from known maritime sources. Moreover, the number of maritime spills has been fairly constant, averaging around 116 per year. And except for 1994, the amount of oil spilled has been less than 5000 gallons per year. It accounts for the most spills and highest percentage of the total volume of oil spilled.