Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean S2 and The shrimp factory whistleblower

Escaping NXIVM

CBC

True Crime

4.7 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Outlaw Ocean is an anthology podcast that plunges you into the vast and often lawless world of the open seas. Today we're featuring an investigation from S2 called The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower.

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina joins Josh Farenello. What started off as a dream job, slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare. Josh moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp-processing plant, but it soon dawned on him that he’d been really been hired as an American face to “whitewash” a forced-labour factory. The largely female employees were effectively trapped on the compound, routinely underpaid, and forced to live in inhumane, unsanitary conditions. Over several months, Josh meticulously gathered evidence that he brought to the Outlaw Ocean team for this exclusive exposé. More episodes of The Outlaw Ocean are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/oo-nxivm

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0:00.0	We're in the midst of the dog days of summer.
0:03.0	And it's called that because during this period,
0:05.0	Sirius, the dog star, rises with the sun in the morning.
0:08.0	Not because it feels like several dogs are breathing their humid breath on you all the time.
0:13.0	Can you tell he's a cat person?
0:15.0	Hello, I'm Neil Kerkstel.
0:17.0	And I'm Chris Houghton.
0:18.0	We're the co-hosts of As It Happens, but throughout the summer, some of our wonderful colleagues will be hosting in our place.
0:23.7	We will still be bringing you conversations with people at the center of the day's major news stories here in Canada and throughout the world.
0:30.3	You can listen to As It Happens wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.5	This is a CBC podcast.
0:40.9	Where the law of the land ends, the story begins.
0:45.3	I'm Ian Urbina, and I'm a journalist who explores the most lawless place on earth,
0:51.1	the vast, unpoliceable ocean.
0:53.8	I'm also the host of the podcast series,
0:56.5	The Outlaw Ocean, an immersive audio documentary series that brings together more than eight
1:02.7	years of reporting at sea on all seven oceans and more than three dozen countries.
1:08.3	We're back with an all-new second season, repeatedly risking our safety
1:13.2	to tell stories that powerful people don't want you to know. I want to share an episode with you
1:18.4	from this brand new season. It's called The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower, and it recently
1:24.2	won a James Beard Media Award in the investigative journalism category.
1:29.9	What started off as a dream job slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare
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