One of the challenges when working in the water is water pressure. Water pressure gets higher as you go deeper and can crush structures if they are not properly reinforced to sustain the pressure. Since we want to have the option of an underwater room, we need to be absolutely certain that the structure won’t […]

Grant is back at the factory with an update about what he calls the Super Bowl. This is the underside of the SeaPod roof section. This is made up of 16 sections that go together like pieces of a pie to give us one solid roof.The molds will always have slight imperfections and while we […]

This is a quick little tour of the inside of the SeaPod central hub. This is the main point of contact where the three outriggers will meet in the middle as well as where the vertical central spar will be connected. This central hub will support all of the weight of the home so it […]

The big metal tubes that we use for the construction of the central spar and the outriggers on our floating tripod base start out as a flat sheet of steel so they have to be rolled into a tube. We have this machine that does the rolling for us so that we can have a […]

Back in August 2021, we launched the first floating TriPod base and it has been in the water since then. Now that we have seen how the first one has responded to being in the water and how everything has held up and we are ready to get the second one rolling.We recently got our […]

The crew is hard at work here at the factory working on putting the final touches on the first SeaPod roof. We make the roof upside down so the bottom is already complete, but we recently flipped it over for the first time and now it’s time to get the exterior surface polished and ready […]

It’s time to flip the first SeaPod roof over to its normal position, an event that we are dubbing The Flippening. This task is challenging for several reasons and it took some teamwork to get it done, but in the end, we had a successful flip and learned some things to hopefully make the next […]

Grant is back at the factory with an update and demonstration of how we are building the wall sections for the EcoPod. These walls are sort of like a sandwich with layers of different materials that each have their own purpose.We start with a look at our molds. These start out as two halves, one […]

We use big steel tubes to build the structures of the center spars and the outriggers on the floating base. The thing about steel is that it comes in flat sheets, not tubes, so we have to make the tubes by rolling the sheets of steel into a tube shape.We have a machine that gradually […]

Grant is bringing us another factory update on the progress of the EcoPod. We have made a few EcoPod wall sections and we now have five of these sections installed on the first EcoPod prototype. These wall sections will go completely around the circumference of the circular EcoPod at a height of 800mm which is […]

We acquired two salvaged workboats a few months ago that we have been taking the time to restore and get sea-worthy again. The goal for these boats is to be used to transport SeaPods and EcoPods from the marina here in Linton Bay, Panama out to where they will be placed. Since the Pods don’t […]

Grant is here today to give us an update from the factory. We can see the mold for the bottom of the SeaPod, which will be assembled with the roof, and of particular importance in this video is the mold for the sides of the SeaPod. These side pieces are essential in that they connect […]

Now that the bottom section and the roof for the EcoPod are coming along nicely, it’s time for us to get to work on the interior and exterior walls of the home. Since the home is built to be a circle, the walls have a constant curvature that allows us to build identical sections and […]

We had the idea to see if it was possible to make a bulletproof Pod with exterior walls that are capable of stopping a bullet or other projectiles. Our plan was to substitute the sheets of fiberglass fabric that we typically use in our Pods for sheets of kevlar fabric. The construction process is basically […]

We have been hard at work and making steady progress on the bottom half of the SeaPod shell here at the Ocean Builders Factory in Panama. Craig is back to give us a quick explanation of the work that we have been doing. You can see in the video below that things are coming along […]

Here we have a quick update from the production facility that is building the windows for the EcoPod. One of the coolest things about the EcoPod is that it has windows going around nearly the entire home. Complemented by the large flat window on the opposite side, the home is built in a circle and […]

We have an exciting update to bring you about the production of the windows for the EcoPod. The first set of flat windows that will separate the kitchen and living room area from the patio is finished and should be heading our way very soon.When closed, these windows will provide a beautiful view from the […]

The main structure of the floating TriPod base that will keep the SeaPod and EcoPod afloat is made of large steel tubes that are cut and welded together to create one solid structure. These tubes start their lives as a flat sheet of steel before being rolled into the tubes that you can see us […]

We are starting to make some real progress on the bottom half of the SeaPod outer shell. Grant is back at the factory to talk us through the plans for the process and what we will be working on for the next few weeks.He is standing at the side of the molds for the bottom […]

We have a steel disk that creates a bit of a flange on the bottom of each hub on our floating TriPod bases. The hub is what we call the center spar where the three outriggers are welded together. This “caps off” the bottom of the hub and helps seal everything up while giving us […]