the high seas

Passengers who spent the night on board described the mood as positive - despite not hitting the high seas just yet.

It achieved its dominance on the high seas — beyond any country’s jurisdiction — with more than 6,000 distant-water ships, more than triple the size of the next largest national fleet.

Amid continuing depletion of the world’s fish stocks, workers on Chinese boats on the high seas have been kept against their will and allowed to die of malnutrition.

"No one had ever considered that the Indigenous people of Oceania have a connection and relationship to what they’re calling the high seas."

And that’s where the most important negotiations are happening that could determine whether permits are granted to allow corporations to mine the high seas.