The ship breakers of Bangla Desh

[bob10]

No OH&S here, Bob


The Ship-Breakers (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/shipbreakers/gwin-text?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20140514&utm_campaign=Content)

[sheerluck]

There was a docco on TV a year or so back, though I can't remember if it was Bangladesh or India shown. In some ways it was fascinating to watch, a mammoth ship being taken apart by hand, but tempered with the human cost. Many deaths and injuries.

And just to show what happens when a Western country tries to do something similar: BBC News - The legacy of Hartlepool's US Navy 'ghost ships' (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-24636597)

[Sitec]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Swg-eISMaD8

The place is called Alang... It fascinates me... Such huge ships being beached having sailed for the last time..

[Yorkie]

Good way to shorten your life expectancy go work in the Alang breakers yard for $1 a day... :(