The Outlaw Ocean Project’s Ian Urbina speaks about Libya’s secret migrant prisons and his time detained in one.

David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein welcome back Ian Urbina who was on Rising Tide’s first episode. They discuss his latest reporting for the New Yorker magazine on how thousands of climate refugees from Africa seeking to cross the Mediterranean are being seized by Libyan Militias who also kidnapped and beat Ian while he was working on this story.

Ian Urbina speaks with Bianna Golodryga about his reporting for The New Yorker on Libya’s detention centers, the European Union’s alleged complicity, and being detained himself.

Ian Urbina speaks with Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium, about lawlessness at sea and a recent investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project into the secretive prisons in Libya that keep migrants out of Europe.

As Ian Urbina’s investigative work uncovered human rights abuses and climate destruction across the world’s oceans, he realized he needed to diversify his audience—beyond even the reach of legacy outlets like the New York Times.

Ian Urbina interviewed about The Outlaw Ocean Project's investigation into the European Union's shadow system of secretive migrant prisons in Libya.

Ian speaks to NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about his piece in The New Yorker about the EU’s efforts to externalize its southern border to North Africa. He headed into Libya to better understand its role in migrants’ movement toward Europe.

Ian speaks to Ayman Mohyeldin about the EU-funded Libyan detention system and being taken into captivity while reporting in Tripoli.

Ian Urbina was invited to speak on a panel discussion on innovative storytelling at a 2021 conference hosted by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a coalition of international investigative reporters. In this video, Ian discusses the theory behind The Outlaw Ocean Music Project, and explores how journalists can reach new audiences through a variety of unexpected mediums.

Ian Urbina presented virtually at Ireland’s leading gastronomy symposium, Food On The Edge. Discussing The Outlaw Ocean Project at large and the impact of at-sea criminality on the global seafood supply chain. Urbina touched on overfishing, arms trafficking, human rights abuses, and illegal dumping and how all these factors and more influence our global food system.

Ian Urbina joined Christopher Ryan’s Tangentially Speaking podcast, for a riveting and impactful conversation. They spoke about The Outlaw Ocean Project, Ian’s past in anthropology, and how to be impactful to the battle happening in and around our oceans.

Ian Urbina of the Outlaw Ocean Project was a part of a powerful webinar called Wild Deep Yonder on October 5, 2021. This event was produced by the Kavli Foundation and the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at NYU and was coordinated Dan Fagin. With Doug Main moderating, Ian and Helen Scales had an open discussion about a multitude of oceanic crises above and below the surface.

Ian Urbina interviewed with Aleksey Kovalev, an editor in the investigation department at the Russian magazine Meduza. The spoke about a wide variety of topics including: consumer politics, environmental pollution, illegal fishing and more. To see the full interview click below.

In the October 2021 issue, Florian Strum interviewed Ian Urbina on a multitude of topics surrounding the lawlessness happening at sea, and what can be done about it.

The Outlaw Ocean was featured in the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Exchange virtual conference on IUU Fishing in Hawaii. Ian Urbina sought to bring awareness to the ghost boats that are washing up around the East Sea. This video features the World’s Largest Illegal Fleet and a first hand look of issues surrounding these vessels.

Izzie Clarke speaks with Ian Urbina in an Ocean Matters Podcast interview. They discuss issues about lawlessness at sea and how fishing is having a huge impact on the lives of humans. Slavery, abduction and even murders are taking place on fishing fleets around the world and with these crimes are being committed far from land, they are unknown or perhaps even unthinkable to most of us.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured on The Marine Diaries’ townhall on Clubhouse. Listen to the conversation below.

Alessandro Madron and Mario Portanova spoke with Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project during a #MilleniuMLive broadcast on June 25, 2021. The interview was about the factory Golden Lead, located in Gambia. Ian spoke about the environmental, societal and economic impact this factory and many more from the Belt Road Initiative is having on underdeveloped countries.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured in El Confidencial.

In honor of United Nations World Oceans Day and the Decade of Ocean Science, Ocean Non-Profit Founders Ian Urbina and Bren Smith (GreenWave) come together to discuss ocean affairs and learn from one another’s creative approaches to advocate for and regenerate healthy and productive oceans.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured on Carne Cruda, a popular podcast produced by Spanish publication eldiario.es.

In this episode of the Sea Control podcast, host Walker Mills talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative journalist Ian Urbina about his recent article in the New Yorker about fish meal and his book The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier. Ian describes his experiences reporting from the sea, the impacts of IUU fishing, sea farer abandonment and the concept of “sea blindness.”

The mystery of Gulf Livestock 1, a 12,000-tonne ship that disappeared without a trace. The Outlaw Ocean Project is featured on Tortoise Media’s Slow Newscast.

On this episode of Bloomberg’s Follow the Data podcast, Ian Urbina joins Melissa Wright—who oversees the Vibrant Oceans Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ program that works to protect the ocean and those who depend on it—from climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Melissa and Ian will tell us more about how reporting at sea has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, how his team uses data from Global Fishing Watch to corroborate his work, and how you can take action to protect our ocean at home.

Host Javier Martínez Molina and Marta Montojo with The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured on the Spanish radio show, Ecogestiona.

Ian Urbina discusses The Outlaw Ocean Music Project on the Conservation X Labs’ Xploring Podcast.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss, German-language newspaper.

The Outlaw Ocean Project’s Holly Pate and Charlotte Norsworthy were featured on the Rhythm Passport Podcast.

With thousands of mariners stranded in foreign waters by the coronavirus pandemic, and congestion and chaos affecting ports worldwide, there’s no shortage of issues for The Outlaw Ocean Project to cover.

The Outlaw Ocean Project participated in the 2021 State of the World conference with FIU.

Ian Urbina chats with Sylvia Earle about the high seas and the need for its protection, not only for the health of the planet, but in defense of human rights.

In a recent interview with Remotely Renee, former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg reviewed The Outlaw Ocean.

El Mundo prepared a list of the best non-fiction books of 2020, and The Outlaw Ocean ranks at No. 7.

Ian Urbina was invited to give the 2020 Lecture of Opportunity at the U.S. Naval War College.

Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with Ian Urbina, investigative reporter and author of, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, and Martina Vandenberg, president of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, to discuss issues related to piracy, kidnapping, and stowaways on the high seas.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured at this year’s American Geographical Society conference, Geography 2050.