Chad Elwartowski and his girlfriend face a possible death penalty for 'deteriorating Thailand's independence'.
HTMS Mannai, a landing craft utility ship, was expected to return to Phuket with the 6m wide cabin late on Monday.Mr Elwartowski said in a statement:"This is ridiculous... we lived on a floating house boat for a few weeks and now Thailand wants us killed."We seriously did not think we were doing anything wrong and thought this would be a huge benefit for Thailand in so many ways.
Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, said:"They proved a single-family seastead can float stably in international waters for less than the cost of the average American home.
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