Besides offering cadets professional formation EFOMM also offers a variety of sporting and cultural activities.

Sporting Activities

EFOMM offers students training on a variety of sports, including Voleyball, handball, basketball, athletics, judo, swimming, rowing and sailing regular teams, besides special daily programmed physical activities classes to enhance physical capacity. EFOMM annually takes part in various official competitions against other educational institutions. The most traditional ones are against COLÉGIO NAVAL – MERC- NAV and CIAGA- CIABA, against the EFOMM of Pará, in a variety of sports, among which Rowing, Sailing, important for students’ marine formation, are outstanding.

EFOMM offers a Sailing Club, which enroll students who practice sailing and rowing. Actually, the Club has a fleet of Sailboats of the classes Lazer, Ocean, Ranger and Rescue (traditional boats incorporated by all merchant marine academies all over the world). The Rescue Class Boats have a 10 seamen crew and are a tradition in EFOMM.

Besides those, the Sailing Club sponsors an annual Sailing Contest denominated CIAGA, which is officially included in the calendar of the Row and Sailing Sports Federation of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the Rowing Contest “Maritime Power”, the first of which was won by one of EFOMM’s Rescue Boats.

Cultural Activities
The Merchant Marine Academic Society –SAMM, administered by the cadets themselves, aims at promoting cultural and entertaining events, offering options of leisure and culture, integrating the cadets into the Society and advertising the Brazilian Merchant Marine through the diverse activities it takes part in.

Among those events there are greeting barbecue parties among classes, theatre plays, balls and parties, the students’ chorus , cultural contests, technical visits, etc.. The SAMM is also responsible for the establishing and supervision of various students’ clubs, as the Nautical, Engineering, Computer Science, Catholic, Christian, Painting, Environment, etc.

The SAMM is also responsible for the edition and internal distribution of cadets’ periodical Newspaper ? The Pelican, which serves the purposes of advertising EFOMM’s activities as well as sending the students important news on our merchant marine’s activities.