Why You Can't Travel Between Hawaii's Islands by Boat



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25 thoughts on “Why You Can't Travel Between Hawaii's Islands by Boat”

  1. Why can't Americans speak English properly? "Hawaii is its most unique". Cringe. "Unique" means that something is one of a kind; that there is nothing else like it. If there is something else like the subject, then it is not unique. It is therefore a binary. There are not degrees of uniqueness; something is either unique or it is not.

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  2. 8:55 Maybe one day there will be a young Globzorpion, that reaches the peak of Maui or huh Big Island on this completely desolate rock in the distant future. And it will think to itself that it must be the first living species to ever be there. And if we never make it off this damn rock, we can never tell it how wrong it is. Unless we did make it. And then made it with a bunch of other 'far out' beings until we became Globzorpions. I don't know why my future has a 60's theme. Or even where I came up with Globzorpion. But I really do like this keyboard.

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  3. I live on Oahu and this was very informative. Well researched

    When he said Alaska rich, Hawaii poor. So true!

    We come from plantation roots.

    Dole from Dole Pineapples. Yeah that guy was a dick!

    He and several other white businessmen overthrew Queen Liliokalani and the Hawaiian government, with protection from the US Army, because they didn't like paying the import tax on their goods since Hawaii wasn't a state at the time.

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  4. I liked almost every content you did, but in this one it seems the interested parts did so good at their narratives that you took the bait. The reasons you point out are absolutely pointless if you use example of functional archipielagos like Canary Islands in Spain, where you can move to every island in ferry and being the distance even larger than hawais and with a similar layout

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  5. Wow, from New England,. US here, I just thought it would be a given, ferry service between the islands. I visit the Philippines, a country much poorer than the US and they have RORO's between almost every island.

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  6. I thought, location—is that not a natural resource? It seems pretty natural, and it's certainly a resource. Extremely limited, at that. Maybe that's why it's not considered a natural resource—because there's only one. I suppose that could open the floodgates, leading some people to claim they have a natural resource that they have the right to sell. Not to mention wanting protection from the local government. That's a hole lot to protect.

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  7. Gee Whiz, the local air carriers no doubt used astro-turfed environmental issues to kill this, just consider the revenue loss if it had to compete with ferry services. Also you left out the fact that the whole place is a fat city, serving elite tourists.

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