Molasses spill

After reading the article on the Honolulu harbor Molasses spill I was interested on how something like this could have happened. It said in the article that the molasses is soluble in the water so the tide will wash it away eventually. In the video posted to the article, there were a lot of dead fish and other organisms as well as a damaged coral reef system.
 People should respond to this problem by volunteering to clean up the beaches when ever possible and help support environmental teams that are working hard to clean up the molasses. In a situation like this I do not believe that anything could have been done to prevent this other than more secure shipping, because this incident was a freak accident. The only thing left to do is to continue cleaning up dead organisms and make the harbor safe for its organisms and people that rely on its water.

Photograph by Hugh Gentry, Reuters