05/22/2026
The team at GOM would like to wish a Safe & Happy National Maritime Day to all US Merchant Mariners, enabling the heartbeat of our great nations waterborne commerce to flow through the arteries of our Marine Highways.
We offer special thanks and admiration, to all mariners on the water, sacrificing times like these, from families and loved ones.
“All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.”
― President John F. Kennedy