The Outlaw Ocean
4.8/5
Critic Rating
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...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4.5
Samantha Hodder • Bingeworthy • Nov 24, 2022
"The first episode delivers. As promised, it digs into the story of the murder video...But here’s the thing: By the end of the first episode, he solves the case...delivered with journalistic prowess to be envied. This could have been a truly incredible narrative podcast that followed one story, down a million layers, and revealed lots of fascinating things along the way. But it wasn’t. Instead, it was a series of topics, strung together (which makes a lot of sense in a book format, less so in a podcast series)."
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • Oct 24, 2022
"Outlaw Ocean makes you feel like you’re there...The show is revealing some of the world’s darkest, most undocumented atrocities (plus the hidden cost of cheap tuna) by going under the sea to find the hidden underbelly of our global economy. There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles in the production, here. Just jaw-dropping audio and wonderful storytelling, kind of whispered by Ian, which makes you lean in close to hear what he has to say."
