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... W/ian_urbina
a nonprofit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., has spent years on the ocean uncovering things that many assume are fully locked in the past: piracy, whaling, slavery and privateers.
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.
The Outlaw Ocean Project also witnessed unparalleled beauty and true marvel, meeting bizarre, sometimes heroic actors in a setting that drowned the senses, a world with brighter sun, louder waves and stronger wind than on land.But there is something else that transcends both the darkness and the beauty offshore. The vastness of the seas has long provided an excuse for dumping waste into the world’s oceans.
These snapshots seemed to demonstrate that the outlaw ocean and the ships that traverse it are defined not just by the people who work these waters but also by intangible forces like silence, boredom and vastness. The ocean is outlaw not because it is inherently good or bad but because it is a void, like silence is to sound or boredom is to activity.
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