The Outlaw Ocean

By CBC

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Subscribers: 311
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 12

cathleen
 Apr 3, 2023
Heavy listening, for sure, but so well-reported and produced. Important stuff.

Description

Where the law of the land ends, the story begins. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina returns with a new season of his riveting podcast anthology, The Outlaw Ocean, which explores the most lawless place on earth — the vast unpoliceable ocean. New episodes starting June 4, 2025. 

 

In season two, Urbina sheds light on the secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up sea-faring migrants; flagrant human rights abuses in China’s massive off-shore fleet; the horrors of a shrimp processing plant in India; and the wild story of a modern-day James Bond — if he were a repo man. 

 

Urbina and his team repeatedly risk their safety to tell stories powerful people don’t want you to know. As podcast reviewer Lauren Passell notes, “Ian’s not relying on research, he was there [...] Outlaw Ocean makes you feel like you’re there, too.” 

 

This immersive audio documentary series brings together more than eight years of reporting at sea on all seven oceans and more than three dozen countries.


Episode Date
S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)
Jun 18, 2025
S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)
Jun 11, 2025
S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)
Jun 04, 2025
Welcome to The Outlaw Ocean (S2)
May 28, 2025
S1 E7: Epilogue — The Spell of The Sea
Nov 07, 2022
S1 E6: The Magic Pipe
Oct 31, 2022
S1 E5: Waves of Extraction
Oct 24, 2022
S1 E4: From The Sea, Freedom
Oct 17, 2022
S1 E3: Slavery At Sea
Oct 10, 2022
S1 E2: The Dark Fleet
Oct 03, 2022
S1 E1: The Murder Video
Sep 26, 2022
Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean
Aug 25, 2022