OCEAN Builders, the futuristic organisation which is plotting future communities at sea – including the attempted purchase and Panama deployment of the former P&O Cruises Pacific Dawn as a floating cryptocurrency enclave (CW 05 Nov 2020) – has had a somewhat embarrassing debut for its latest innovation. The company last...
OCEAN Builders, the futuristic organisation which is plotting future communities at sea – including the attempted purchase and Panama deployment of the former P&O Cruises Pacific Dawn as a floating cryptocurrency enclave (CW 05 Nov 2020) – has had a somewhat embarrassing debut for its latest innovation.
The company last month held a global online unveiling of a floating home called the SeaPod, but unfortunately a technical hitch saw the structure become partially submerged right at the critical moment (pictured).
The prototype SeaPod features three “half floors” suspended about 3m above the surface supported by underwater air-filled steel tubes, said to give the residence “superior comfort and stability because you are floating above the waves”.
Sadly the “floating” part of that claim proved not to be quite accurate after a “ballast tank and pumping system malfunction” but the company stressed there were no injuries as a result of “what we’re referring to as ‘The Tilt'”.
