First Seasteaders

Samuele Landi, a middle-aged man smiles while sitting at the edge of his barge next to a shipping container, the ocean waves behind him.

Secret Seastead Ends in Death

Samuele Landi lived in international waters for over a year. A storm ended in three deaths. What does this mean for seasteading?

Seasteading! Seas Too Rough?

Sometimes people from the Navy and from oil rigs in the North Sea say Seasteaders are naïve. But environments on the sea are as diverse as environments on land. Just as the continents feature the Himalayas and the Sahara, the oceans feature the North Sea and the tropics.

Seasteading! What did the first seastead achieve?

The dawn of the age of Seasteading began on February 2, 2019, when Ocean Builders achieved an engineering feat and an environmental feat. First they proved a single-family seastead can float stably in international waters for less than the cost of the average American home.