The oceans supply 50 percent of the air we breathe. They are a workplace to more than 50 million people.
And yet, the journalism about this sprawling and vital place is a rarity.
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.
Desperate North Korean fishermen are washing ashore as skeletons because of the world’s largest illegal fleet.
For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher.
Among the investigations covered in The Outlaw Ocean book is that of the Murder at Sea story, which reveals a slow-motion slaughter of at least four men caught on camera.
