- The Residents of the Deep Home Seastead are either crew or passengers. Crew man the vessel and are employed by the Seastead. Operations (deck and engineering) crew report to the Captain, who has ultimate responsibility for the safety of the vessel and those aboard. Service department crew report to the Director. Passengers, whose costs are paid by a third party, include the scientists and staff that make up the Deep Home Research Institute, and the Deep Home Fellows who are chosen for their outstanding ability to contribute to the artistic, cultural and / or intellectual life of the community and who act as artists and scholars In residence. Residents are encouraged to bring their children aboard with them. Additionally, there may be a very limited number of non-resident visitors aboard from time to time.
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- All adults (persons eighteen years or older) who come aboard or who turn eighteen while on board, as a condition of residence, must agree to be bound by the Seastead Charter. They thereby qualify as Residents and members of the Seastead corporation. They remain Residents until they renounce the Charter, or having less than five years of on-board residency, are absent from Deep Home for more than three months. After five years’ cumulative on-board residency, they are no longer subject to the three month absence rule.
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- A Resident may at any time renounce the Charter, thereby forfeiting their Resident status and if on-board, reverting to Guest status. The fundamental right and privilege of an Resident is to vote in plebiscites, on a one person one vote one value basis.
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- Children: A child is a person of under eighteen years. The ability of the Seastead to nurture and educate children and provide them with a safe and stimulating environment is part of the Seastead’s mission to “demonstrate that humans can live safely and sustainably on a permanent basis on and under the deep ocean.” Members of the crew and sponsored staff are therefore encouraged to bring their children aboard with them. The cost of accommodating and educating those children is born by the Seastead as part of the overall cost of operation.
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- There are significant requirements as to medical, psychological and temperamental fitness and suitability which apply to all potential Seastead residents. Seastead residents may engage in physical activity at altitude and at depth involving compression and decompression. They may experience temperatures as low as -40°C, and may make flights in unpressurised aircraft. All must be sufficiently agile and physically fit to enable them to climb ladders and nets on the sides of ships and climb into and out of ship’s boats and inflatable craft which move considerably in heavy swells. Personnel may be aboard the Seastead for extended periods of many months. The stress of isolation, environmental conditions and extreme remoteness from major medical facilities are important considerations and it is therefore mandatory that potential residents be in good physical condition and free from any disability which could adversely affect their health, restrict their activities or create a burden for others. See “Medical Fitness Requirements”.
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