Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington DC that focuses on environmental and human rights concerns at sea globally.

Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean Episode 6: The Fish We Turn to Dust

Published May 25, 2023 6:14 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the sixth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 5: Raiders of the Deep

Published May 15, 2023 11:01 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the fifth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 4: The Magic Pipe

Published May 10, 2023 10:03 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the fourth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more...

Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean Ep. 3: Dreamers of a Floating World

Published May 3, 2023 6:58 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Offshore

This episode is the third installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 1: Where Killers Go Free

Published Apr 17, 2023 9:34 AM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Shipping

In this first episode of "Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean," a gruesome video turns up on a cell phone, abandoned i...

Outlaw Ocean Podcast: Intentional Dumping May Be Worse Than Oil Spills

Published Oct 31, 2022 3:18 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Shipping

When a ship inadvertently spills oil, it’s big news. But according to an investigation by The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-pr...

Outlaw Ocean Podcast: How One Third of All Fish Caught Become Fishmeal

Published Oct 24, 2022 2:50 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem environmentalists pushed for fish farming, or aquaculture. This was...

Outlaw Ocean Podcast: How the High Seas Became a Metaphor for Freedom

Published Oct 17, 2022 12:51 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Piracy

The lawlessness of the oceans provides space to absurd and remarkable stories of renegades and mavericks of all sorts seeking to e...

The Outlaw Ocean Episode 3: Slavery Is Not Gone - It's At Sea

Published Oct 10, 2022 2:17 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Piracy

While forced labor exists throughout the world, one place where it’s especially pervasive is the South China Sea, and especi...

The Outlaw Ocean Episode 2: The World's Largest Illegal Fishing Fleet

Published Oct 3, 2022 12:59 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Shipping

If you look at the taxonomy of crime that plays out offshore, it's both diverse and acute. And yet illegal fishing sits at the...

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