Created and produced by The Outlaw Ocean Project. From CBC Podcasts and the L.A. Times Podcasts.There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the worlds oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.  

THE OUTLAW OCEAN podcast is a seven-part series hosted by Ian Urbina that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by 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.

Relying on more than eight years of reporting at sea on all seven oceans and more than three dozen countries, the podcast brings all of it together into an immersive audio documentary series. New episodes are released weekly.