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The Outlaw Ocean

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About the show

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.

Latest episodes

S2 E8: The untold plight of North Korean workers (China Pt. 3)

July 23, 2025 · 30 min

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 fishing practices. The fleet is so…
S2 E7: The unspoken cost of seafood (China Pt. 2)

July 16, 2025 · 43 min

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 fishing practices. The fleet is so…
S2 E6: The undisputed superpower of the seas (China Pt. 1)

July 9, 2025 · 56 min

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 fishing practices. The fleet is so…
S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower

July 2, 2025 · 40 min

What started off as a dream job, slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare. Josh Farinella moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp-processing plant, but it soon dawned on him that he’d been really been hired as an American face to…
S2 E4: The repo man of the seas

June 25, 2025 · 49 min

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 is a last resort for ship owners whose…
S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)

June 18, 2025 · 38 min

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, abused and sometimes killed. An…
S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)

June 11, 2025 · 49 min

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, abused and sometimes killed. An…
S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)

June 4, 2025 · 28 min

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 secretive prisons. There, they are extorted, abused and sometimes killed. An…