Does this not strike anyone as being vaguely reminiscent of the origin of L. Ron Hubbard's Sea Org? I mean it's not the first time somebody has thought of using a ship (or a fleet of ships) to get around visa problems. I don't mean to suggest anything cultish about the plan, but it might be worth somebody's while to look at the port exclusion history of the Scientology venture and so forth before embarking on a venture like this. The combination of hostile governments, adamant corporate leadership and a staff bound not by billion-year contracts but by high wages (and slowly learning to accept new inconveniences as they arise) -- I can see this going badly.
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Does this not strike anyone as being vaguely reminiscent of the origin of L. Ron Hubbard's Sea Org? I mean it's not the first time somebody has thought of using a ship (or a fleet of ships) to get around visa problems. I don't mean to suggest anything cultish about the plan, but it might be worth somebody's while to look at the port exclusion history of the Scientology venture and so forth before embarking on a venture like this. The combination of hostile governments, adamant corporate leadership and a staff bound not by billion-year contracts but by high wages (and slowly learning to accept new inconveniences as they arise) -- I can see this going badly.