The high seas remain an often-dystopian realm where the scant laws that do exist are frequently ignored.…
Reporting
Shackled, whipped and beheaded
While forced labour exists throughout the world, nowhere is the problem more rampant than in the South China Sea.…
The Guardian: Ship of horrors
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.…
Virgin Unite: Slavery at Sea
Ian Urbina has been an investigative reporter at The New York Times for over two decades – and is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, and is a producer of Emmy Award-nominated work. The Outlaw Ocean series, originally published in The…
The Atlantic: Pint-Size Nation
The remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on a metal platform.…
Antarctica: A place of marvel
In a two-person submarine more than 700 feet under the polar ice, we witnessed some bizarre creatures.…