The Outlaw Ocean
By CBC
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Subscribers: 381
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 18
Aug 6, 2025
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.
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S2 Bonus: Let’s go below the surface with host Ian Urbina
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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S2 E8: The untold plight of North Korean workers (China Pt. 3)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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S2 E7: The unspoken cost of seafood (China Pt. 2)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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S2 E6: The undisputed superpower of the seas (China Pt. 1)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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S2 E4: The repo man of the seas
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Welcome to The Outlaw Ocean (S2)
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May 28, 2025 |
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S1 E7: Epilogue — The Spell of The Sea
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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S1 E6: The Magic Pipe
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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S1 E5: Waves of Extraction
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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S1 E4: From The Sea, Freedom
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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S1 E3: Slavery At Sea
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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S1 E2: The Dark Fleet
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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S1 E1: The Murder Video
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean
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Aug 25, 2022 |