Recent events have reminded the world of its dependence on maritime commerce.

What can we do to mitigate the mayhem offshore?

For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher.

The international fishing industry is ripe with corruption bred by corporate anonymity.

This page will now serve as the location where we will store reports on the Murder at Sea investigation, original documents and open questions for which we hope to get answers from interested stakeholders.

No other country comes close in the size of China’s fishing armada, but the dominance and reach of this fleet raises broader questions about how, why and at what cost China has put so many boats on the water.

Behind the tragedy of the recent deadly explosion in Beirut is the more pervasive travesty of the abandonment of ships, seafarers and cargo.

We partnered with two types of creators — an animator and a composer — to make an artistic rendering of our recent investigation.

This investigation reveals the world’s largest fleet of illegal fishing boats ever discovered.

This page will now serve as the location where we will store reports on the Somali 7, original documents and open questions for which we hope to get answers from interested stakeholders.

The Outlaw Ocean Project wrote an introduction to Reporters Without Borders RSF Albums for Press Freedom collection for 2020.

The high seas remain an often-dystopian realm where the scant laws that do exist are frequently ignored.

While forced labour exists throughout the world, nowhere is the problem more rampant than in the South China Sea.

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.

The book is both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé.

The remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on a metal platform.

In a two-person submarine more than 700 feet under the polar ice, we witnessed some bizarre creatures.

As an oil company tries to drill in international Arctic waters, advocates race to block them.

Indonesia arrests Vietnam’s fishermen, and Vietnam responds by ramming a ship and taking an Indonesian officer captive.

Visiting countries where abortions are illegal, a Dutch doctor secrets women out to international waters to provide the procedure.

One of the most lawless regions on the planet, Somalia is a magnet for illegal fishing.

Ships that were supposed to have been scrapped are caught pillaging the east coast of Africa.

A team of Brazilian researchers hustled to stop a trio of energy companies from drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Oil spills are a disaster and yet intentional dumping is far more common

Sea Shepherd chases the world’s last industrial whaling ship.

In today’s world, how is this still happening?