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title: "Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 1)"
description: "The last untamed frontier – where killers go free."
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author: "Ian Urbina"
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published: "2023-04-17T21:04:44"
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# Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 1)

> The last untamed frontier – where killers go free.

By Ian Urbina · Published 17 April 2023, 23:04 SAST

## Key points
- The high seas are a lawless world – and Ian Urbina is determined to find out why in this riveting episode of DM/OBP. A decade-long quest for answers unravels a murky web of floating armories, mercenaries, and pirates.
- Gruesome video surfaces of men gunned down in international waters
- Ian Urbina travels the oceans to uncover why offshore crime is so prevalent
- Explores the murky world of floating armories, mercenaries and pirates
- Uncovers why offshore crime is so unreported and unpunished

## Content

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeGA37Hvaw)

A gruesome video turns up on a cellphone, abandoned in the back of a taxi. Four men desperately cling to wreckage, somewhere in the high seas. Shots ring out. The men are gunned down, methodically, one by one. There are countless witnesses to their slaughter. Yet like 99% of all murders that occur in international waters, the crime goes unreported. When the footage finally surfaces and goes viral, no government is willing to investigate. Over the span of a decade, Ian Urbina will travel the oceans in search of answers. In this episode, he takes viewers on a tireless investigation, deep into the murky world of floating armories, mercenaries and pirates exploring why offshore crime is so prevalent, unreported, and unpunished. **DM/OBP**

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[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REeWvTRUpMk)