These projects are making the creation of floating ocean cities a reality. Their founders were inspired by The Seasteading Institute’s messaging and are committed to The Eight Great Moral Imperatives.
Active Projects
Follow the exciting story of Ocean Builders in our four-part documentary series, The First Seasteaders.
Currently, Ocean Builders is working on version 2 of their single-family, affordable seastead, called the SeaPod. They are hosting an Incubator for “entrepreneurs, aquapreneurs, technology enthusiasts, electronics hackers, marine biologists and other people that are passionate about developing new products and services that a city on the ocean would need.”
“The Ventive Floathouse mission is to build permanent ocean communities for the masses, using modular structures designed to make ocean living safe, comfortable, and affordable.
“We’re building new types of floating-structures capable of flourishing at sea permanently, to organize them into floating communities and ultimately into independent cities in international waters.”
Blue Frontiers is working to negotiate a special economic zone for seasteads (a SeaZone) to allow for the development of seasteads.
Shannon Lim of OnHand Agrarian is practicing DIY aquaculture. He has structures floating in Singapore Bay that incorporate pens for fish and sections for growing produce. He created Reefblocks, building blocks for floating platforms that use plastic waste.
Ocean Freedom Nation uses modules of reinforced concrete to begin a floating settlement along the Vitoria-Trindade chain, 500 km from the Brazilian coast.
Past Projects
In 2017, the Floating Island Project in French Polynesia gained a lot of momentum when The Seasteading Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of French Polynesia. Our partners in the seasteading community formed Blue Frontiers to develop the project.
During the election that year, a small minority of French Polynesians spread misinformation about the project to discredit the President, Édouard Fritch. Despite the apparent opposition, the President easily won re-election. The political fighting did cause the Floating Island Project to be postponed indefinitely. A major crash in cryptocurrency that year did not help. Remaining funds for the project were returned.
Seavangelesse Nathalie Mezza-Garcia gave a presentation about the lessons learned from the Floating Island Project. You can read a transcript of her presentation on the Seaphia website.
We at The Seasteading Institute certainly know how risky it is to place one’s hope in the political process. While this particular project was not completed, we gained many supporters and connections who are working on related seasteading projects in other locations. Blue Frontiers, in particular, has been in contact with other nations interested in special governance frameworks.
Blueseed, a cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco
Started by former employees of The Seasteading Institute, the “Googleplex of the sea” raised seed funding for a visa-free startup community and entrepreneurial incubator in international waters near the coast of Silicon Valley.
Related Projects
An Open Value Network to facilitate developers and entrepreneurs to work on projects remotely and have all resulting technology designs available on an open-source network.
The Deep Blue Institute (DBI) is working on scaled deployment of ready-for-market Regenerative Marine Infrastructure technologies that support ocean habitat restoration, sustainable economic development, resilient coastal and Island communities, and the objectives of the United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. DBI is currently developing deployment opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Colorado River Delta at the Sea of Cortez, and the Louisiana Estuary zone on the Gulf of Mexico (see our Blue Tech Delta initiative).
Gregory Delaune, CEO
Our Ambassador, Nima Katz, has organized an event for Brazilians to participate in the NASA Space Apps challenge. NASA publishes a list of challenges and there are usually challenges related to the ocean.