The 3 Best The Outlaw Ocean Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 1: The Murder Video
Crimes like this don't often happen on land. A 10-minute slow-motion slaughter captured by a cell phone camera shows a group of unarmed men at sea, possibly 15 of them, killed one by one by a semiauto...Show More
2) Episode 3: Slavery At Sea
Ian’s account of his groundbreaking reporting on slavery in the South China Sea, the first time a reporter had ever made it onboard a Thai distant-water vessel using enslaved labour. Found shackled b...Show More
3) Episode 2: The Dark Fleet
It would be hard to believe if it hadn't actually happened. The longest law-enforcement chase in nautical history, spanning 110 days and 10,000 miles, featured a bunch of vigilantes pursuing Interpol'...Show More
4) S2 Bonus: Let’s go below the surface with host Ian Urbina
They say you should never meet your heroes. Daemon Fairless disagrees. He takes us behind-the-scenes on The Outlaw Ocean, S2, from his intimate vantage point as its story editor. Fairless begins by as...Show More
5) S2 E8: The untold plight of North Korean workers (China Pt. 3)
Spread across the Earth’s oceans, the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is the single largest armada in human history. This three-part series is an unprecedented investigation into their secretive f...Show More
6) S2 E7: The unspoken cost of seafood (China Pt. 2)
Spread across the Earth’s oceans, the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is the single largest armada in human history. This three-part series is an unprecedented investigation into their secretive f...Show More
7) S2 E6: The undisputed superpower of the seas (China Pt. 1)
Spread across the Earth’s oceans, the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is the single largest armada in human history. This three-part series is an unprecedented investigation into their secretive f...Show More
8) S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower
What started off as a dream job, slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare. Josh Farenello moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp-processing plant, but it soon dawned on him that he’d been really ...Show More
9) S2 E4: The repo man of the seas
Depending on who you ask, Max Hardberger is either a seagoing James Bond or a swashbuckling pirate. Hardberger runs a rare kind of repo service, extracting huge ships from foreign ports. His company i...Show More
10) S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)
The Libyan Coast Guard is doing the European Union’s dirty work, capturing migrants as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe and throwing them in secret prisons. There, they are extorted...Show More