Listen to ‘The Outlaw Ocean: A Team of Journalists at Gunpoint’ on Say More

Members of The Outlaw Ocean Project were detained in a secret prison. They believed they’d die there — but they were better off than the migrants they were covering.

An aid worker on a MSF ship keeps an eye on a Libyan Coast Guard vessel cutting across their bow at high speed.Ed Ou//The Outlaw Ocean Project

More than 50 million people make their living working offshore on two-thirds of our planet covered by water.

The non-profit Outlaw Ocean Project is dedicated to exploring human rights violations, forced labor, and environmental problems that plague the world’s oceans. Over the next few weeks, we’re bringing you a three-part story from the second season of “The Outlaw Ocean” podcast.

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Shirley Leung: I’m Shirley Leung. Welcome to “Say More.”

Today, we’re bringing you the third and final installment of The Outlaw Ocean Podcast’s investigation into the shadowy work of the Libyan Coast Guard. The podcast looks into efforts to capture and detain migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea in the hopes of a new life in Europe.

This week’s episode describes how members of The Outlaw Ocean team were arrested and detained in Libya while they were investigating its network of migrant prisons.

If you like what you’ve heard over the last three weeks, you can check out the rest of Outlaw Ocean’s new season wherever you get podcasts.

Listen to more “Say More” episodes at globe.com/saymore and wherever you get your podcasts. If you like the show, please follow us and leave us a review. You can email us at [e-mail].

Kara Mihm of the Globe staff contributed to this report.