The Omaha Maritime Institute was founded by Pepe Fernando (Great-uncle of Pip-Pip Fernando) in 1902. The institute flowered briefly in the ealry 20th century due to the much acclaimed writings of it's eminent philoshpher Horatio McDougal Smith. Smith's theory of the trans-migration of fish in a pre-post modern world was briefly applauded by many post-pre moderninst such as the "Loomsfield Quadrangle" (loosley associated with the Debuemont Circle and the Benihana Hexagon). The theory was later discounted as being "silly" and "irrelevant". The Institute closed it's doors in 1922 after graduating 6 of the finest maritime philosophers of the first half-decade of the 20th century.