Throughout history, shipping has played an important part in societies around the world. In some regions, it is central to most parts of society, such as in Oceana where sea-routes are the lifelines of the islands there, while ocean voyaging maintains a history of more than 6000 years. Pacific islanders had colonized the entirety of the Pacific Ocean in fast double hulled sailing ships when Europeans were still mainly using only coastal vessels (Nuttall, D’Arcy; Philp, 2014).