Super Tankers Scrapped

I wasn't commenting on the politics of it, merely the images presented in the essay. I found them beautiful, surreal and haunting.
 
The images are indeed beautiful and since its not our fault/contribution and we dont agravate the problem by looking at them (well we dont stop it either :/) i say its a nice post mate. thx
 
Stunning images, thanks for the link! Good inspiration.

Btw, it's "scrapped", not "scraped", I think?
 
Yeah good photo essay. I always thought they had professional and well equipped crews to do this kind of dangerous work. It was quite a shock to discover otherwise.

Yes Overseer it's actually scrapped.
 
10mmCurator said:
Yeah good photo essay. I always thought they had professional and well equipped crews to do this kind of dangerous work. It was quite a shock to discover otherwise.


Yes Overseer it's actually scrapped.
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Cheep expendable labor.

There are people who do this work properly. I believe that they are required to decommission their ships with trained professionals as a requirement of registering under a country like China, Australia, or the US.

So to keep costs down, ship owners register their ships under countries like Panama or some other small country who has few laws regarding how they handle ships. I once saw the flag of a land locked country on a big transport. When they need it scrapped, they beach it there and let the locals have at.
 
a bunch also simply reregister somewhere else after the ship is no longer of value to them, selling it to a dummy corporation which then ships it to somewhere where laws are lax and labour is cheap.
 
Interesting pictures. The first one reminds me of ancient Egypt, gargantum structures with lines of tiny workers - quite surreal.
 
Awesome photos...

And it provides 200,000 people with jobs and 80% of Banglashesh's steel, that's great as well.
 
Mani said:
Awesome photos...

And it provides 200,000 people with jobs and 80% of Banglashesh's steel, that's great as well.
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Ahh, Bangladesh...

Reminds me of High School and the model UN when my buddies and I decided it would be fun to attempt to cause WWIII...

Now that I look back on it, it was surprisingly easy to get started. Though, that might have been due to my imitating Nikita Kruschev when he was at the UN.
 
Jubal Quintus said:
I found them beautiful, surreal and haunting.
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I felt the same. :oops:
I always get like that when i see abandoned machinery.

You must feel really tiny beside a tanker like that.
 
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