The Outlaw Ocean
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 I...
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Episodes (20)
The Outlaw Ocean Introduces: The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover
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The Outlaw Ocean Introduces: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith Case
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S2 Bonus: Let’s go below the surface with host Ian Urbina
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S2 E8: The untold plight of North Korean workers (China Pt. 3)
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S2 E7: The unspoken cost of seafood (China Pt. 2)
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S2 E6: The undisputed superpower of the seas (China Pt. 1)
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S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower
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S2 E4: The repo man of the seas
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S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)
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S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)
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S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)
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Welcome to The Outlaw Ocean (S2)
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S1 E7: Epilogue — The Spell of The Sea
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S1 E6: The Magic Pipe
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S1 E5: Waves of Extraction
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S1 E4: From The Sea, Freedom
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S1 E3: Slavery At Sea
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S1 E2: The Dark Fleet
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S1 E1: The Murder Video
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Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean
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