For the first time in 12 years, the Texas A&M Maritime Academy’s cadets will sail together as an entire academy this summer beginning May 30.

Jenny Long was an Aggie with a challenge. She had an important job opening to fill with her company, BP Shipping Americas, located in Chicago.

Off the coast of South Padre, on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, lies a ship on its side.

Beginning in 1962, when the Texas Maritime Academy, forerunner of Texas A&M University at Galveston, was founded, cadets had spent their first academic year on the College Station campus of Texas A&M University.