The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

Well-written, well-researched, and harrowing in prose and in content. A collection of issues interconnected through legal, sociopolitical, and personal story, Urbina has written a journalistic expose of the seas unlike anything I have ever seen. I was enthralled the whole time. I learned so much.

And, despite my usual misgivings on journalists who spill a lot of ink on their personal connections to the story as slowing the pace, I didn't feel like that at all about Urbina's personal asides. Incredible.

another reminder of the true costs of comfort.

it did feel that the author was feeling his role in the “story” at times a bit much, tho.