Kai Makana teaches volunteers the basics of water quality testing to understand what is in our ocean and the near shore environment. We teach that the ocean may be beautiful, but that it is necessary to test the water to see if it is able to sustain life based on what we do on land. Testing the waters off of Mokauea Island has indicated that the island has a good source of dissolved oxygen and that run off thus far does not appear to reach the island’s eco-system.