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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. I...
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Introducing | Fiasco: Benghazi — The Dictator
On the night of September 11, 2012, a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, left four Americans dead, including Ambassador C...
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 vantag...
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...
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...
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...
S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower
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...
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, extra...
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 throwin...
S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)
The Libyan Coast Guard is doing the European Union’s dirty work, capturing migrants as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe and throwin...
S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)
The Libyan Coast Guard is doing the European Union’s dirty work, capturing migrants as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe and throwin...
Welcome to The Outlaw Ocean (S2)
In season two of The Outlaw Ocean, host Ian Urbina sheds light on the secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up sea-faring migrants; flagrant human right...

S1 E7: Epilogue — The Spell of The Sea
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the sea is a workplace for more than 50 million people. The oceans produce half the air we breathe, and more than 8...
S1 E6: The Magic Pipe
When a ship inadvertently spills oil, it’s big news. But every three years, ships intentionally dump more oil than the Exxon Valdez, and BP spills com...
S1 E5: Waves of Extraction
The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem, environmentalists pushed for fish farming or aquaculture. The problem is this industry...
S1 E4: From The Sea, Freedom
The sea has always been a metaphor for freedom – an escape from governments, laws and other people. This episode takes us off the coast of England to...
S1 E3: 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-wat...
S1 E2: 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,...
S1 E1: 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, po...

Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean
High Seas. High Stakes. High Crimes. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s ocean...