The Outlaw Ocean

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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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  S2 E1: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)

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  S2 E2: A place “worse than hell” (Libya Pt.2)

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  S2 E3: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)

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  S2 E4: The repo man of the seas

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  S2 E5: The shrimp factory whistleblower

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  S2 E6: The undisputed superpower of the seas (China Pt. 1)

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  S2 E7: The unspoken cost of seafood (China Pt. 2)

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  S2 E8: The untold plight of North Korean workers (China Pt. 3)

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  S1 E1: The Murder Video

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  S1 E2: The Dark Fleet

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  S1 E3: Slavery At Sea

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  S1 E4: From The Sea, Freedom

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  S1 E5: Waves of Extraction

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  S1 E6: The Magic Pipe

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  S1 E7: Epilogue — The Spell of The Sea