With thousands of mariners stranded in foreign waters by the coronavirus pandemic, and congestion and chaos affecting ports worldwide, there's no shortage of issues for maritime journalist Ian Urbina to cover.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter heads The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at sea.
His recent work has been documenting incursions by China's huge fishing fleet into foreign waters (including in the Pacific), and the origins of the vast cache of ammonium nitrate that led to last year's devastating port explosion in Beirut.
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Ian Urbina on an Indonesian patrol ship chasing Vietnamese fishing ships in a contested area of the South China Sea Photo: supplied / Fabio Nascimento
