Next week is World Maritime Day, celebrating those who traverse the ocean blue to deliver everything that people need around the world. The NOAA NWS Ocean Prediction Center provides critical and life-saving ocean weather forecasts mariners rely on for safe navigation, producing 150 ocean wind, wave, and marine hazard analyses and forecasts every day as they travel the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. One product can even predict wind and wave threats two weeks in advance, twice as early as