Ian Urbina, director of the Outlaw Ocean Project, spoke with The Globe and Mail about searching the sea for stories
Deep, dark, and full of secrets, the ocean can be an enterprising journalist’s best friend – or worst enemy., former New York Times reporter Ian Urbina dives deep into the world of pirates, poachers, slavers and so much more. With the 10-part series now being rolled out via media partners such as The Globe and Mail, Urbina – director of the non-profit journalism organization the, which produced the new project – spoke with The Globe and Mail about searching the sea for stories.
One of our goals was to cover this reporting in a distinct way, and given that water covers two-thirds of the planet, that means it’s going to take a lot of time, a lot of money, and a lot of reporting. The larger point of this reporting is to confront the global public with the reality that there’s a lot more happening out there than people realize. If you say to someone, “I’m reporting on maritime crime,” they’ll say, “Oh, so Somali piracy.” That’s Hollywood-driven, and it’s not wrong.
With so much ground to cover, so to speak, how did you decide which issues to focus on in each episode? Sea slavery is a difficult one to tackle. There are these vessels out on the water for two to three years at a time, really far offshore, whether they’re Taiwanese, Chinese, South Korean. They dump their hauls on refrigeration vessels that come by, and they stay on the distant water. Even if you can get out to them, and even if you can get onboard them, they’re not going to show you the real conditions. It’s a circus.
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