Fictional report of Social & Governance Activity in “The Reach”. A series of short voice-notes document changes in “The Reach” following redundancies, through the lives of a Daughter and Father, Anya & Arjun, a financial shareholder and “Reach-faring seaman” respectively.
Every story here starts as the sea does, how it feels, long before the paperwork is checked; what one person lives through, what the law says, what we’ve come to believe about the water and, further out, the systems that decide whose favoured.
The Seabed: once for mankind and twice for the crew
Seafarer repatriates through shell-ownership, older tonnage and registry. From financial to abandonment risk the mast swings.
Subsistence in the EEZ, a fisher sails the gap between state and their life at sea.
the common heritage pool and surveys earning territory.
one desk, two acts. a registration filing and people improvements at the margin.
The sea is open, the sea is closed. Clausum taking over the watch from four centuries of Liberum.
