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Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina is an investigative reporter based in Washington, and the author of The Outlaw Ocean: Crime And Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (2019, Bodley Head)

December 2021

  • A screengrab from Unsafe Passage, a Guardian Documentary. (Ed Ou/The Outlaw Ocean Project)

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Unsafe Passage: on board a refugee rescue ship racing for Europe – Guardian documentary

  • A ship with asylum seekers leaves Libya bound for Europe, triggering a showdown between a Doctors Without Borders vessel wanting to escort it to safety and the Libyan Coast Guard fighting to turn it back. With refugees once again in the spotlight, here is an inside view of the desperate hope that is the deadly race for Europe

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    'Get away from the target': on board a refugee rescue ship racing for Europe - video

    Video27:19

October 2019

  • rusty vessel at sea

    The Audio Long Read
    Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas – podcast

    From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious
    Podcast27:05

September 2019

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    The long read
    Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas

    The long read: From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious
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