Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, political anthropologist, associate professor at the American University of Beirut, amateur sailor and host of the InsurgenSeas project, sets the stage for a new conversation about oceans and the politics of oceanic change. Drawing from decades of research and activism around the sea, he reflects on how the sea is often seen either as an empty space, a state-controlled border, a new investment horizon, or a lawless frontier, but can be reimagined as a site of radical possibilities and community reclaiming. Why turn to the sea at all? What does it mean to think politically from the rising waterlines? Through stories, interviews, and theoretical provocations, Kosmatopoulos invites listeners into an unconventional way of seeing the seas: one that connects frontline struggles, deconstructs oceanic essentialisms, and breaks new floating ground for thinking and acting with the sea and its communities.