Ian Urbina

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