Alang ship breaking

[baites1]

Wow, anyone else seen the documentary on Discovery about the Alang ShipBreaking Yard?
The scale of it is mind blowing.
Google Satellite Image of Alang beach
It's amazing what the workers there are expected to put up with, opening up fuel/oil holding tanks full of vapours with acetylene torches, dealing with asbestos/PCBs, cutting out and dumping huge sections of ship onto the beach with bugger all safety, approx 300 deaths a year and all for something like a dollar a day.
Kinda feel bad for them, because for alot of em, it's all they know, so they can't, or don't bother to, find better work.

Don't think I'll go there when I go on my working OE



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[Projekt]

Brother tell me about it... Seen the working conditions prevalent there on a special report. It is the world's cutrate salvage and recycling operation for decrepit supercargo ships and oversized vessels of all callings. These poor guys began in the smithing caste as metal workers and knife sharpeners and ended up as ship scrappers for so global conglomerate that refuses to acknowledge it's effects on people's safety.