Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, just published "The Outlaw Ocean," a four-part series on crime in international waters.

“It is a tribe. It has its norms, its language, and its jealousies. I approached it almost as a foreign country that happened to be disparate, almost a nomadic or exiled population. And one that has extremely strict hierarchies—you know when you’re on a ship that the captain is God.”

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Show Notes:

@ian_urbina

Urbina's New York Times archive

[5:00] Review Longform Podcast in iTunes

[17:00] "Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship" (The New York Times • July 2015)

[18:00] "'Sea Slaves': The Human Misery that Feeds Pets and Livestock" (The New York Times • July 2015)

[19:00] "A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes" (The New York Times • July 2012)

[24:00] Lloyd's List

[27:00] "Murder at Sea: Captured on Video, but Killers Go Free" (The New York Times • July 2014)

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