@[563740429:2048:Randolph Hencken], former Managing Director of The Seasteading Insitute, on Chad and Nadia, the couple who are on the run from the law for setting up a single family seastead just outside of Thailand's territorial waters.
"In no way did Chad, Nadia, or Ocean Builders have any intentions of violating the laws of Thailand, nor disrupting or interfering with Thailand’s sovereignty.
The Seastead was located outside of Thailand’s territorial waters. It is (was?) 14 miles from the nearest land mass. Territorial seas extend 12 miles from a nation’s shoreline.
The seastead was within Thailand’s Contiguous Zone, where Thailand has the legal right to protect itself from certain acts — but Ocean Builders did not violate those laws and did not plan to violate those laws.
The seastead was temporarily anchored and could be towed to other locations, thus it did not fall under the definition of an artificial island within the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Ocean Builders was not extracting resources from the Thai EEZ, which would be a violation of law.
The intentions of these “first seasteaders” were to pioneer a seasteading community in international waters. A community that would prove that people could live nearly full time on seasteads. They planned to grow their own food. They planned to demonstrate that they could live there and not harm the ecosystem."
https://medium.com/@randolphhencken/perspective-on-the-thai-seasteading-matter-9ddd7e6456fe
"In no way did Chad, Nadia, or Ocean Builders have any intentions of violating the laws of Thailand, nor disrupting or interfering with Thailand’s sovereignty.
The Seastead was located outside of Thailand’s territorial waters. It is (was?) 14 miles from the nearest land mass. Territorial seas extend 12 miles from a nation’s shoreline.
The seastead was within Thailand’s Contiguous Zone, where Thailand has the legal right to protect itself from certain acts — but Ocean Builders did not violate those laws and did not plan to violate those laws.
The seastead was temporarily anchored and could be towed to other locations, thus it did not fall under the definition of an artificial island within the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Ocean Builders was not extracting resources from the Thai EEZ, which would be a violation of law.
The intentions of these “first seasteaders” were to pioneer a seasteading community in international waters. A community that would prove that people could live nearly full time on seasteads. They planned to grow their own food. They planned to demonstrate that they could live there and not harm the ecosystem."
https://medium.com/@randolphhencken/perspective-on-the-thai-seasteading-matter-9ddd7e6456fe