Two-thirds of the planet is covered by water, and much of that space is ungoverned. Human rights and environmental crimes occur often and with impunity because the oceans are sprawling and the laws governing them are difficult to enforce.
The global public is woefully unaware of what happens at sea. Journalism about this realm is rare. The result: Most landlubbers have little idea of how reliant we are on the people who work the water. Fully half of the world’s population now lives within 100 miles of the sea. And yet most people, with sedentary occupations and landlocked lifestyles, conceive of this space as a liquid desert that we occasionally fly over, a canvas of lighter and darker blues.
Part of the problem is in our heads. The oceans are typically and correctly viewed as a marine habitat. But they are, in fact, also much more. The oceans are a workplace, a metaphor, an escape, a prison, a grocery store, a trash can, a cemetery, a bonanza, a tinderbox, an organ, a highway, a depot, a window, an emergency and, above all, an opportunity.
people have dreamed of using this freedom to create permanent colonies on or under the ocean. This tradition continues. Today a small set of libertarians who call themselves"seasteaders," named after the homesteads of the American West, still chase the dream of founding independent nations in international waters in the form of self-sufficient, self-governing, sea-bound communities.Far from escape or recourse, ships at sea are for many workers a jail without bars.
A first and essential step is to broaden our thinking about the oceans. “Dispatches From the Outlaw Ocean” is a documentary series that offers an intimate tour through this untamed frontier. It chronicles a colorful cast of characters, from traffickers and mercenaries to conservationists and oil dumpers to shackled slaves. A key goal of journalism is to stoke a sense of urgency and help the public reimagine the oceans as something other than a bottomless trash can.
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