ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 5月15日 17時48分

Photo by @mike_hettwer - SHIPBREAKING - In the shipbreaking yards north of Chittagong in Bangladesh, about 150-200 ships are “broken” each year by thousands of desperately poor workers. I had just been on this oil tanker and climbed through the manhole on the deck, now just barely visible in the splash. The ship and the stairs leading up to the deck were coated with many years of thick, slippery oil sludge. I later found out that this hundred ton section I climbed through, was being held on to the ship by several three foot pieces of steel on the deck. It took the torch cutters thirty seconds to cut through them and release this section into the sea causing a splash over 80 feet high.
Many of  the previous comments had asked how the ships get so close to shore. At high tide, the ship’s captain rams them at maximum speed, into the beach so workers can get to them at low tide. The ships are cut apart from the inside and sections are winched to shore using thick steel cables. After they are pulled on to the shore of the once pristine black sand beaches, the sections are cut into steel sheets, most of which are turned into rebar rods for building construction. Ships usually take three to six months to be completely disassembled.
During the process, workers are exposed to many dangers including carcinogens like vaporized lead paint, and gas explosions on the ships - all for a few dollars a day.
The short shipbreaking video we produced has been seen by over 2 million people and can be viewed on several sites including the Nat Geo YouTube channel : “Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything”. You can paste this link into a browser to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOmtFN1bfZ8

This story was featured in National Geographic Magazine in May 2014 and you can  the full story here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/shipbreakers/gwin-text
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