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Alang. Where dying ships 01/25/2013
Cutting ships - the company is very environmentally harmful, and it decided to only three countries in the world: Turkey, India and Bangladesh. The developed world send their ships to die in the developing world, all the logic, of course. When the life of a ship coming to an end (and it is usually 25-30 years), they fit in to one of the ship-cutting port where the ship is stripped down to the last nut and bolt.
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The spectacle steamship Outdoors crematoriums very oppressive. The once handsome huge cruise ships, mighty wagons, tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are now sadly moored at the waterfront and slowly rusting, waiting their turn at a breaker. Flags lowered sheathing is dotted with clams, some parts pokorezheny and water poured oil and butter.
Alang is located in the north of the western Indian state of Gujarat, 50 km from the city Bavnagar. In Alang very comfortable natural system of the tides that take place twice a month and is easily predicted. At high tide the boats pulled to the shore, and at low tide the water recedes at 16-18 meters, and the ship is practically on the ground. The water around him is unbearable sour stink. They assembled almost the entire periodic table and various carcinogens. To get to the ship, a worker removes the lower part of their robes and bare feet, waist deep in the stinking mire walks to the drawn down from the ship rope ladder.
From naguglennogo this ship we found out that it was the passenger liner and another in 2009, feel good, although it was planned to be replaced. The site cebuferries.com schedule Our Lady Of The Rule is empty, the ship took in his last voyage and slowly die in Alang. Here's how it looked handsome while on the go.
Graveyard of ships. It is very sad, anxious and uneasy. Ships at Alang people - too sad, too, doomed.
Along the coast are scattered pieces of asbestos and other rubbish. Inhalation of asbestos dust first signs of the disease appear in 5-10 years, so you can imagine the state of health of the people working there. On nature protection measures, and no one thinks to think.
The first ship, «Kota Tenjong», ran aground in Alang February 13, 1983.
Just Alang is cutting about 400 sites, which is also called the platform, but no platform is not there - the nude beach. They cover 10 kilometers of coastline. Photo from guglmapa.
The first thing newcomers inspect the ship inspection and issue a certificate. Clearly, not without bribes. Then the ship dismantled generator, electric motors, compressors, boilers, navigation systems, electric cables, plastic and carpeting, furniture and other utensils used in the cabins, and which can then be resold. It is such a generator removed from the vessel.
Each site in Hindi written safety rules, but not the fact that the workers know how to read. Accidents happen when cutting very often.
Most often, when the propane tank and the fuel cut is within a certain amount of fuel - there is an explosion, and then have someone as lucky or does not return home, or with multiple injuries and scorched limbs. The idea is that all the ships before staging a breaker on the inspection should check for the presence of residual fuels and smazyvatelnyh materials in the housing, but apparently did not always pass this inspection properly. The news of such incidents rarely go beyond the Alanga, because here and as human rights organizations have long foraged. Working on these organizations is absolutely not care, because they come here to make money, and maybe this is their last hope to feed their families.
Rummaging in a large bag of waste paper was found in-flight magazine and a technical description of a Japanese vessel.
One worker we asked how it works here, they say, is a very dangerous and difficult. And he said, 'What do I do? I'll take any job, because I have no choice ».
However, each worker has a robe, helmet and rubber boots, which a few years ago the owners of shipbreaking sites they did not provide.
If you are good, then cutting area will not let anyone take pictures, and there is prohibited. I got there as part of a small trip, organized by the local community kauchserferov, and one of them in Alang have a friend who took us to their platform, allowed to photograph anything and even watered Coke.
Even the lifebuoys then go to the local flea market where you can buy everything to furnish a new cruise ship again.
For three months the ship completely disassembled down to the last nut and from the former power and glory there is nothing left.
And so familiar Soviet hand grinder. It is possible that at some Ukrainian or Russian vessel. During the Soviet era in Alang butchered so many Soviet ships.
Speaking of work. Alang attracts residents of the poorest states in India - Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand. They work every day, without any employment contract.
Frankly, every time the shutter button chattering, my heart sank, and I mentally asked these people for forgiveness. Such workers like porters earn 150 rupees per day, slightly more than $ 3. Salary day experienced engraver can reach up to 375 rupees ($ 7). The money they save to send to their villages, where they left the family with children. On the part of the same money they need to live somehow in Alang. Often workers are crammed into shacks right next to the chopping platforms.
The sale of this kind is the main source of income shipbreaking facility, as the price of mined metal miserable because of the high cost of propane required for cutting sheets, transport and the work itself. All disassembled by hand or using equipment that remained on korable.V depending on the type of ships and the size of their weight ranges from 5,000 to 40, 000 tons. For the cutting of one ship of medium size (15 thous. Tonnes) it takes 3 to 6 months and from 150 to 300 workers at different stages.
Everything from furniture to large appliances.
Our Lady Of The Rule, went under the flag of the Philippines, was released in 1970, the tonnage - 3875 and belonged to the company CebuFerries.
By the way, I remembered an interesting point of English grammar. All inanimate objects in the English do not have the floor, except for one - the ship. About the ship always say "she" and apply such epithets as "beautiful", "elegant" and "magnificent».
Here's a tour turned gloomy. On the road of Alang in the side of the house saw the tank. It is not clear where he was taken, but it is possible that at the next board.
Source: amores-amores.com/alang-where-ships-go- to-die /
Original
The spectacle steamship Outdoors crematoriums very oppressive. The once handsome huge cruise ships, mighty wagons, tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are now sadly moored at the waterfront and slowly rusting, waiting their turn at a breaker. Flags lowered sheathing is dotted with clams, some parts pokorezheny and water poured oil and butter.
Alang is located in the north of the western Indian state of Gujarat, 50 km from the city Bavnagar. In Alang very comfortable natural system of the tides that take place twice a month and is easily predicted. At high tide the boats pulled to the shore, and at low tide the water recedes at 16-18 meters, and the ship is practically on the ground. The water around him is unbearable sour stink. They assembled almost the entire periodic table and various carcinogens. To get to the ship, a worker removes the lower part of their robes and bare feet, waist deep in the stinking mire walks to the drawn down from the ship rope ladder.
From naguglennogo this ship we found out that it was the passenger liner and another in 2009, feel good, although it was planned to be replaced. The site cebuferries.com schedule Our Lady Of The Rule is empty, the ship took in his last voyage and slowly die in Alang. Here's how it looked handsome while on the go.
Graveyard of ships. It is very sad, anxious and uneasy. Ships at Alang people - too sad, too, doomed.
Along the coast are scattered pieces of asbestos and other rubbish. Inhalation of asbestos dust first signs of the disease appear in 5-10 years, so you can imagine the state of health of the people working there. On nature protection measures, and no one thinks to think.
The first ship, «Kota Tenjong», ran aground in Alang February 13, 1983.
Just Alang is cutting about 400 sites, which is also called the platform, but no platform is not there - the nude beach. They cover 10 kilometers of coastline. Photo from guglmapa.
The first thing newcomers inspect the ship inspection and issue a certificate. Clearly, not without bribes. Then the ship dismantled generator, electric motors, compressors, boilers, navigation systems, electric cables, plastic and carpeting, furniture and other utensils used in the cabins, and which can then be resold. It is such a generator removed from the vessel.
Each site in Hindi written safety rules, but not the fact that the workers know how to read. Accidents happen when cutting very often.
Most often, when the propane tank and the fuel cut is within a certain amount of fuel - there is an explosion, and then have someone as lucky or does not return home, or with multiple injuries and scorched limbs. The idea is that all the ships before staging a breaker on the inspection should check for the presence of residual fuels and smazyvatelnyh materials in the housing, but apparently did not always pass this inspection properly. The news of such incidents rarely go beyond the Alanga, because here and as human rights organizations have long foraged. Working on these organizations is absolutely not care, because they come here to make money, and maybe this is their last hope to feed their families.
Rummaging in a large bag of waste paper was found in-flight magazine and a technical description of a Japanese vessel.
One worker we asked how it works here, they say, is a very dangerous and difficult. And he said, 'What do I do? I'll take any job, because I have no choice ».
However, each worker has a robe, helmet and rubber boots, which a few years ago the owners of shipbreaking sites they did not provide.
If you are good, then cutting area will not let anyone take pictures, and there is prohibited. I got there as part of a small trip, organized by the local community kauchserferov, and one of them in Alang have a friend who took us to their platform, allowed to photograph anything and even watered Coke.
Even the lifebuoys then go to the local flea market where you can buy everything to furnish a new cruise ship again.
For three months the ship completely disassembled down to the last nut and from the former power and glory there is nothing left.
And so familiar Soviet hand grinder. It is possible that at some Ukrainian or Russian vessel. During the Soviet era in Alang butchered so many Soviet ships.
Speaking of work. Alang attracts residents of the poorest states in India - Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand. They work every day, without any employment contract.
Frankly, every time the shutter button chattering, my heart sank, and I mentally asked these people for forgiveness. Such workers like porters earn 150 rupees per day, slightly more than $ 3. Salary day experienced engraver can reach up to 375 rupees ($ 7). The money they save to send to their villages, where they left the family with children. On the part of the same money they need to live somehow in Alang. Often workers are crammed into shacks right next to the chopping platforms.
The sale of this kind is the main source of income shipbreaking facility, as the price of mined metal miserable because of the high cost of propane required for cutting sheets, transport and the work itself. All disassembled by hand or using equipment that remained on korable.V depending on the type of ships and the size of their weight ranges from 5,000 to 40, 000 tons. For the cutting of one ship of medium size (15 thous. Tonnes) it takes 3 to 6 months and from 150 to 300 workers at different stages.
Everything from furniture to large appliances.
Our Lady Of The Rule, went under the flag of the Philippines, was released in 1970, the tonnage - 3875 and belonged to the company CebuFerries.
By the way, I remembered an interesting point of English grammar. All inanimate objects in the English do not have the floor, except for one - the ship. About the ship always say "she" and apply such epithets as "beautiful", "elegant" and "magnificent».
Here's a tour turned gloomy. On the road of Alang in the side of the house saw the tank. It is not clear where he was taken, but it is possible that at the next board.
Source: amores-amores.com/alang-where-ships-go- to-die /