{"id":229135,"date":"2026-05-12T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:58:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-cadets-at-suny-maritime-college-set-sail-for-their-summer-sea-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229135\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Cadets At Suny Maritime College Set Sail For Their Summer Sea Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 500 cadets and staff boarded the Empire State VII, a state-of-the-art training ship used for the SUNY Summer Sea Term on Tuesday. The cadets on board are currently training to obtain their U.S. Coast Guard license.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Summer Sea Term is an 8-week voyage, where student cadets learn valuable hands-on experience while on board. The college calls the experience &#8220;unforgettable&#8221; and &#8220;transformational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family and friends waved goodbye to the students as they set sail.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We are watching our brothers and our siblings leave for 75 days on the maritime show, because it&#8217;s sad watching them go, and then it&#8217;s going to be hard, because I&#8217;ve grown up with him all my life,&#8221; said Alex Costa, the brother of a SUNY cadet.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cadets will arrive at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina on Friday, May 22.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the college, the cadets will continue their voyage to Malaga, Spain and Belfast, Ireland, before returning to New York on July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 500 cadets and staff boarded the Empire State VII, a state-of-the-art training ship used for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-229135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}