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looks like @elwar had a bad day

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$1.5 Million Floating Home Prototype Sinks Into The Water Just As It’s Unveiled.

Three floors, a landing pad for drones, a bunch of electronics - all this is in the houseboat. At first, everyone admired the unique idea, but as soon as the house left the pier, it immediately bent over and went to the bottom.

The SeaPod, builty by Panama-based technology company Ocean Builders, is meant to be a self-sustaining, eco-restorative home that floats above the waves.

source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/xwxlk8/15_million_floating_home_prototype_sinks_into_the/

Looks to me like it probably bottomed out and tipped as it needs to sink a bit as its weighed down to keep its stability.

Not designed to balance on its bottom.

i saw a reddit comment that said the pod has an active ballast system or something with pumps and they continually balance the system to keep it level. apparently one pump failed somehow.

Hmm, if true not building redundancy into a critical system like that is poor engineering on its surface.

I read the comments on reddit OMG they're hilarious, particularly this one: “Good morning, I’d like to cancel my pre order please”.

Yeah, making the whole thing's buoyancy depend on electric pumps is a bad idea. I wouldn't dare to spend some time in an ocean/sea in that thing not even talking about living there... making the pumps not redundant is even worse. They really need some plan b like those air filled pontons or something else to keep it afloat if the pump gets broken or they run out of electricity.. Cool