*** Time stamps for this episode: Interview with Ian Urbina 05:30 - 52:45
*** This episode kicks off a series of episodes dedicated to organized crime on our oceans. Esther and Felix talk to Ian Urbina, investigative journalist, Pulitzer prize winner and former New York Times writer. Ian is the author of the book The Outlaw Ocean and has launched a reporting project under the same name, including the Outlaw Ocean Music Project.
“Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways — drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.”
*** Check out Ian’s reporting project: https://www.theoutlawocean.com/
*** Support investigative journalism on our oceans: https://www.theoutlawocean.com/donate/
*** Music used in this episode: “Hope and Despair (Instrumental)” by Behind Clouds & Ian Urbina / “Try To Boil The Ocean” by Alec Troniq & Ian Urbina ***