Outlaw Ocean

The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

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 the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity.

Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortionists, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways: drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. 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.

Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

Oceanul Outlaw este un tur captivant, alimentat de adrenalina, intr-o lume vasta, fara lege si criminala, pe care putini au vazut-o vreodata: marea libera. Exista putine frontiere ramase pe planeta noastra. Dar poate cele mai salbatice si mai putin intelese sunt oceanele lumii: prea mari pentru politie si sub nicio autoritate internationala clara, aceste regiuni imense de apa perfida gazduiesc extremele neinfranate ale comportamentului si activitatii umane. Traficanti si contrabandisti, pirati si mercenari, hoti de epava si barbati de reparatie, ecologisti vigilenti si braconieri evazivi, avortonisti la mare, vagoane de petrol clandestine, sclavi cu catuse si clandestini derivati: bazandu-se pe cinci ani de rapoarte periculoase si intrepede, adesea la sute de kilometri de tarm, Urbina ne introduce locuitorilor acestei lumi ascunse si vietii lor pline de riscuri.