S26 E3: Slavery At Sea | "The Outlaw Ocean"
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ian’s account of his groundbreaking reporting on slavery in the South China Sea, the first time a reporter had ever made it onboard a Thai distant-water vessel using enslaved labour. Found shackled by the neck as part of the crew on a dilapidated fishing vessel, Lang Long was a victim of the nightmarish world of debt bondage. A global scourge, sea slavery is something most people do not realize exists. This episode explains how it happens, taking us for the first time on board one such roach and rat-infested ship on the South China Sea, worked by 40 Cambodian boys. The episode also explains how overfishing has given rise to trans-shipment, fish-laundering and a prevalence of abuse that companies and governments have a tough time countering or tracking. Guest Interviews: Shannon Service, Director of “Ghost Fleet” Daniel Murphy, Freedom Fund
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| 0:00.0 | This is a very strange and frustrating story to have your family members stolen and murdered then missing. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Connie Walker and this is missing and murdered, finding Cleo. |
| 0:13.0 | It's such a mystery, such an impossible task. |
| 0:17.0 | Please, help us find him. |
| 0:20.0 | Finding Cleo. |
| 0:22.0 | If you'd like to hear more, you can find the full season wherever you get your |
| 0:26.1 | podcasts. |
| 0:27.1 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | The episode you're about to hear contains descriptions of violence. |
| 0:38.0 | Please take care. |
| 0:42.0 | When a man desperate for work finds himself in a factory or on a fishing boat or in a field, |
| 0:48.0 | working, toiling for little or no pay and beaten if he tries to escape. That is slavery. |
| 0:54.0 | There are more enslaved workers today than at any other time in human history and a |
| 0:58.1 | large number of them are at sea. |
| 0:59.4 | It might stay at sea for months or years. |
| 1:01.6 | Prem together over years, you know, not being able to leave this confined space. |
| 1:05.0 | Some were thrown overboard, shot or decapitated. |
| 1:09.0 | The fish they catch is shipped all around the world. I've been reading countless reports, |
| 1:14.0 | human rights. I've been reading countless reports, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Red Cross, |
| 1:27.0 | reports based on interviews of escaped and returned deckhands on vessels that were notorious for using captive labor, often called sea slaves. The testimonies were brutal, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | were brutal, you know, beatings or routine, |
| 1:50.0 | disappearances were common. |
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