Covering two-thirds of the planet, the sea is a workplace for more than 50 million people. The oceans produce half of the air we breathe and more than 80% of the products we consume. Aside from being vital, the oceans are also distinctly fascinating for the universality and peculiarity of mariner culture. Home to a place of slavery, host to the most dangerous profession in the world (fishing), the sea is also a mesmerizing realm of unmatched beauty.
The seventh episode of “The Outlaw Ocean” podcast, from CBC Podcasts and the L.A. Times, shares a more personal and behind-the-scenes account of the body of reporting trips done mostly at sea — and how this experience can affect a person, for better and worse. Listen to it here:
Impunity is the norm at sea, not just because of the lack of enforcement but also due to the cast of characters out there who, with questionable credentials and motives, are left to take up the slack. Bureaucrats rather than investigators conduct what rare inspections actually occur on vessels suspected of environmental or labor abuses. Vigilantes and private mercenaries, as much as police or navy officers, patrol the high seas and pursue scofflaws.
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