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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 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. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays, starting on June 4, 2025.
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Transcript
This is a CBC podcast.
The ocean is vast, beautiful, and beyond the laws of land.
I'm Ian Urbina, back with an all-new season of the Outlaw Ocean.
Eight years of reporting at sea, across seven oceans, and more than three dozen countries.
The Outlaw Ocean season two
brings you stories of life and death from the edges of the known known world.
So he was bleeding out for an hour
around an hour.
Secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up seafaring migrants.
China's gargantuan offshore fishing fleet, an invisible empire at sea.
A nautical James Bond, whose job it is to sneak ships out of hostile ports.
I like not getting killed.
And I like even more not going to jail in a foreign country.
The world is undergoing seismic shifts.
Economically, geopolitically, ecologically, nowhere on earth is that more apparent than at sea.
Don't shoot at the people.
Keep a distance to the boat.
Over.
These are urgent, unsettling stories.
And honestly, reporting on them was dangerous work.
My family doesn't know where I am.
We've been disappeared.
Forced labor, vulnerable populations on the move, mind-boggling environmental plunder, all invisibly connected to the lifestyles we lead and the cheap seafood we can't get enough of.
If you want to understand the depth of the world and the times we live in, dive into the Outlaw Ocean.
Season two drops weekly on Wednesdays, starting June 4th, wherever you get your podcasts.
For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.
