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My first thought: "how far off the coast of Florida?"

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1198252469/coast-guard-hamster-wheel-reza-baluchi-atlantic-ocean

Try as he might, Reza Baluchi can't reach his destination without running afoul of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The key problem is his vessel: a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baluchi running inside.
Baluchi, who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, was taken in by the Coast Guard last week aboard his vessel, following several days of back and forth with the authorities.

Try as he might, Reza Baluchi can't reach his destination without running afoul of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The key problem is his vessel: a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baluchi running inside.
Baluchi, who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, was taken in by the Coast Guard last week aboard his vessel, following several days of back and forth with the authorities.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court in South Florida, the Coast Guard cutter Valiant came across Baluchi and his homemade vessel about 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Ga., on Aug. 26 as the Coast Guard was preparing for Hurricane Franklin.

More in the article, too much of a pain to copy on mobile, but he threatened to kill himself and then blow himself up when they tried to board his death trap. He's charged with Obstruction of Boarding and ignoring an order from the Captain of Port (he has tried this before and was told to cut it out).

And of course it was Florida, because where else would this happen?