The Outlaw Ocean
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways — drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.
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- Two other books I'd recommend are The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina, and Outside The Box by Mark Levinson (author of The Box).
- To that point, see the « outlaw ocean » book by Ian Urbina: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Ocean
- Outlaw Ocean is an absolutely amazing book with chapters on different crazy occurrences in our legally-ambiguous oceans (slavery, mobile abortion ships, mercenaries, repo-men, activists , etc.)
Definitely worth a read if this interests you:
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean-by-ian-urbin...
- > My wife is pescatarian
Not a judgment on your wife, but sharing for general awareness: I would eat land animals before eating fish again. You can read Outlaw Ocean for a quick look at how awful the seafood industry is. The seafood industry has everything from slavery, abuse, animal population decimation, and more, which is directly supported by anyone who eats seafood:
> Do you know if the fish on your plate is legal? A new study estimates that 20 to 32 percent of wild-caught seafood imported into the U.S. comes from illegal or "pirate" fishing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/140409-il...
- If interested in reading more on this, and other abuses on the sea:
The Outlaw Ocean https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Ocean-Journeys-Untamed-Frontie...
This is based on a series of articles the author wrote for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-out...
- "Outlaw Ocean" is a great book about atrocities and crimes that occur constantly at sea, like this story.
