ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月10日 08時57分

@sergeyponomarev took this photo of tourists on stranded, rusted ships in Muynak, a former port in western Uzbekistan. Muynak was once a thriving port of 25,000 people. Most worked on trawlers or in the bustling cannery. About 20% of all the fish consumed in the Soviet Union came from the roughly 30 species in the Aral Sea. And then, around 1986, the sea disappeared. It’s now more than 75 miles away. Aside from killing the fishing industry, its disappearance spawned a grim array of health problems like lung and kidney diseases and increased child mortality. In addition, without the mitigating effect of the wind blowing across the water, summers are hotter and winters colder throughout the region. And yet paradoxically, the man-made disaster strangling the town has become its main attraction in recent years. Tourism is booming. “A lot of people want to see an ecological crisis,” said Vadim Sokolov, the head of the Uzbek branch of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea. Where waves once lapped at the harbor’s lighthouse, rusting trawlers now sit abandoned on the sandy seabed far below, like dinosaur bones bleaching in the sunshine. A selfie from the ship cemetery has become a must-have for the Instagram crowd. Visit the link in our profile to read more, and to see more photos.

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