Why Hundreds of Abandoned Ships were Destroyed in the Pacific
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- In this eye-opening video, we delve into the fascinating world of shipbreaking, the process of dismantling old ships and recycling their materials. Starting with the question of where huge ships go to die, we explore the entire process, from how they are brought ashore to be scrapped to the value of the scrap metal they yield. But shipbreaking is not without its challenges, and we also examine the dangers it poses to workers and the environment, including the harm it can cause to local ecosystems. Finally, we look closer at the potential benefits of sustainable recycling and how this industry can help reduce waste and conserve resources. Get ready for a deep dive into this little-known world!
#Shipbreaking #Recycling #EnvironmentalImpact #ScrapMetal #SustainableRecycling #WorkerSafety #LocalEcosystems #Dismantling #ResourceConservation #maritimeindustry
00:48 - Discovering the Secret World of Shipbreaking: Where Do Huge Ships Go to Die?
02:38 - From Sea to Shore: How Ships are Brought Ashore to be Scrapped
04:27 - The Shocking Value of Scrap Metal: How Much are Ships Worth?
03:41 - Behind the Scenes: How Ships are Scraped
08:08 - Devastating Consequences: How Shipbreaking Harms Local Ecosystems
09:37 - Dangerous Work: The Risks of Being a Shipbreaker
12:15 - The Bright Side of Shipbreaking: Exploring the Benefits of Sustainable Recycling
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Maybe ships were once destroyed in the Pacific, but the main Alang India yard you discuss is actually in the Arabian Sea, part of the Indian Ocean, no where near the Pacific Ocean.
Good point. When I wrote that I didn’t intend it to be taken that way. Me geography wasn’t great but the Gujarat peninsula is clearly on the Indian Ocean
It says we're which is past tense. Learn words.
Ryan is Amurrican and public schools don't much cover geography anymore. LOL
@@sydecarnutz972 actually I was the writer for this and consider my geography to be above average but not great. Maybe I should have emphasized the “used to be” but hey whatcha gonna do?
@@islandrevenant5746 The choice of words in the title is confusing because the shipbreaking industries in S. Korea and Taiwan are boiled down to a single sentence and were never referenced again. The video in all intent and purpose predominantly centers around Alang shipbreakers.
When I see "Why Hundreds of Abandoned Ships were Destroyed in the Pacific", I was at least expecting a history of shipbreaking in Pacific nations.
The problem is an industry that does not plan or think beyond the life of the ship. It the ship builders were responsible for the dismantling of the ships too, I bet it would be a lot different. But at this point what are the other options? The world overlooks this place so they don't have to deal with the environmental impacts and figure the poor masses will take care of it, which they do, but at a terrible price to be paid!
The bottom paint that keeps the creepy crawlies away is the worst, containing a lot of heavy metals. That is why you don't dredge San Diego harbor over near the shipyards. You don't want to churn that up again.
Heavy Metals! Faar out maan! Is Metallica on any of’em?
Luckily EU-flagged ships above 500gt need to be dismantled at approved locations nowadays. But yeah most ships are flying the flags of these banana republics so I dont know if it has an impact.
Hahaha I’m glad you believe that
Hey watch how fast a ship is sold for a million dollars then flagged as Liberian.
Don't think they use welding tools to take them apart. Welds hold things together.
Welding tools can also be used to cut metal
A cutting torch uses the same equipment as oxy-acetylene welding but is used to cut up steel.
But I just had a thought: Why not bring them to the coast of California? They could become new 'homeless camps'.....
Or the UK, we've got 80,000 illegals coming over from France every year and nowhere to put them.
So many places like this across the world but let’s make sure were all forced to drive electric cars here in America 🙄 Ridiculous.
And pay $114 Trillion to save the World from Global WARMING......
Don't forget the paper straws! At least they offset ALL the private jet pollution, people like Greta and Leonardo create when they travel to lecture us peasants...
@@TheSourKraut yup a study just said the 0ne percent or vat jets amount to almost 50% of Aviation Carbon POLLUTION on GAIA. straws OfCourse!
Lol lol 😆
So because one place is polluted all should be?
Never hard to spot the conservative.
It would definitely be torch or oxygen Lance men. Not much work for welders
The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau was eventually broken up at a ship break yard in Middlesboro' England where there is a yard thet is able to break up ships full of toxic materials. They get permits to break ships on a ship by ship basis and use an old dry dock.
I remember seeing Ships being Scaped in 1970's California as a kid. Dad said the metal would go to Japan and come back as a Toyota.
And that's why a Toyota it's reliable and a Chevy wasn't
@@chacaf22bullshit. I'm a mechanic and the most failures I see are from Toyota trucks. Balljoints headgaskets steering racks wheel hubs etc... go Google image of a Toyota tundra spindle
The image of The France 6:31 sitting there abandoned just tore me up. 😢
Oh my gosh! It had exactly the same effect on me.
I was fortunate to have a one week sail on this magnificent ship when it was called The Norway. I suppose part of my sentimentality for this ship comes from the fact that it was my very first cruise, but still, if it had been my 15th, the effect would have been much the same. This was just such a unique ship with such a history.
Certainly there are some advantages to today's cruise ships, I cannot deny that, but I would trade those advantages in a second to go back and sail on the older ships. They just had so much to offer that today's cookie cutter, 'mega' ships cannot match.
It's just a shame that they could not do something with this ship like they did with The Queen Mary and The Rotterdam. I wonder if anybody even tried.
Fascinating!!!
Ryan, Glad you presented this report. From others that I have reviewed, you did well. My proposal is that all new ships must be disassembled by the same shipyard that built them or another shipyard that builds similar ships. This would do 3 things. 1. Keep shipyards busy in down sided times. 2. Quality recycling is a must for this earth. 3. Workers would be much safer. Funding would be mandated by UN Standards and the cost of each new ship would include the cost of recycling. IF all shipyards had this mandated standard, costs for new ships would be higher, but higher for all ship buyers and operators.
Welders put steel plates together or pipes together they don't cut ships apart
GTS Finnjet was scrapped in Alang. It was such a shame. The fastest ferry ever at 33,5 knots. And it was still in good shape.
If the safety or environmental people complain too much about the shipyards, know that the alternative is that these boats just sink in the middle of the ocean. And then all the people that earn the $50 a month go on to earn $0 a month. You don’t live long on that income.
Hey narrator- "welders" join metal together. Cutting torches cut up metal.
interesting video/subject but, narrator is not knowing of using the word 'welding' or welders". by dif- welding is the joining of metal through heat. Welding is NOT used to take things apart, only to put them together. The proper wording would be 'cutting' as in using a cutting saw or acy/oxy cutting torches. hope this helps those watching this.
That is a common mistake that I see quite often. In the shipyard that I worked in cutting was referred to as "burning" and the people doing the cutting (myself included) were referred to as "burners".
I would say that "burner" is an accurate descriptor for oxygen acetylene torch users. The heat to melt the metal in the cut comes mostly from burning iron with pure O2. In plasma cutting, not so much. There an arc discharge in a flow of air heats it to steel melting temps. Kinda lightning in a pipe. You could call yourselves "Thors" maybe.
@dhill4001 Plasma cutting is very cool. I ran a cnc plasma cutter that cut under water. We had water tables where they would lay down a 10x40' steel pllate, then flood the table until the plate was submerged about 3-4". The torch would dip into the water and do the cutting. It reduced the noise and smoke considerably. Open air plasma cutting is quite loud.
Welders are the ones with cutting and dismantling equipment. Ryan is correct, I also am a welder.
Thank you, very interesting
I'm in Denver, CO and we have issues with the bentonite in the soil when building new homes! It expands then constricts when it gets wet! Therefore foundations crumble after 5-7 years if not taken into consideration! Build on drilled piers if you don't want expensive repairs before the mortgage is paid off completely! God bless our world!✌️✌️
I left my narcotics on the damn ship
Do a story about the steel pier in Atlantic city
Say please
We’re worried about the environment enough to ship
somewhere else.
Some photos are not in the Pacific.
Everyone, company & government wants the profits to build something but neglect the cost of disposal.
It's a shame the CEO and share holders money is more important than people's lives or the planet.
Its not a shame, its a reality;
You will give up your house living's room, and half of your rooms for a poor child in India or Africa can eat for a Year, or two?
I dont think so; none of ours will do that
Its always sad to see a ship die
3:06 That looks lika a WW2 Victory ship!
This is one big bowl of sad, I'm sorry to these poor Indians and what they must go through just to earn a living but at the price of their lands/children's future.
I am ambivalent about stories like this.
On one hand, yeah, it creates a local disaster. But on the other hand, what would conditions be like without the industry there, with no economic opportunity at all? The wages may be dismally low, but it still puts them above some other areas where you'd have no income at all. It may be a crappy situation, but at least you're not going to starve because your crops failed.
This way, at least the kids could be educated, which is usually the ticket out of places like this...
So your siding with the super rich
Your ignorance is showing. Ship breaking yards do nothing to lift the locals out of poverty or give them an education.
Steel is going for .10 cents US a pound on average the past few years. It doesn't take much to pay each employee (650 lbs) - aka - they are being ripped off while those at the top reap all the benefits.
@@thatcanada They're being "ripped off", but it's still the only work they have available that pays htat much. They wouldn't be doing it if the benefits to them didn't outweigh the other options.
i can't understand why big companies not interested in that business
Somebody has to do the dirty work….
The dirty work and telemarketing
@@Not_You_2 and the fools who fall for it
@@Slicer400 yup
there is a video of a cruise ship going full speed onto the beach. Also another that shows the pollution just running into the sea. In that video there's one poor guy electrocuted running the winch to drag a part of the hull to land.
shiiitttt i would scrap the hell out a ship..
How can a welder be a cutter breaking the ships there classed as cutters
I had thought India was always where they did that, tks
Also Bangladesh has a considerable number of breakers.
Less talking , more breaking !
Where there's a will, there's a way !!
tide is high that anything goeas back to sea thoriw back to shore line in alang. super cheap labour, no safety norms, local mafia makes perfect place for ship breaking site. place is so polluted today that no one can spend few hours. it is so hazardous. but at same time amazing place to buy stuff taken off from ships. many times its super cheap but high quality.
The other side of this is how cheaply people are valued. I can hear the argument that the descendents of the current generation may have a better chance at life. I have to wonder though about genetic damage, that the work brings, to those descendants.
So a thought just occurred to me. Lemme preface this by saying I see the impact of putting thousands out of work and there's ways that it can be avoided but let's be real, itl probably never happen. Now then my thought, is that if we wanna do ship breaking way safer and possibly more economically, this job would be perfect for AI equipped bots or just an AI factory that can see the dangers and plan around them and while if you loose a bot or something in a collapse or accident, it's better than loosing a human life
A lot of steel to steal on those old ships
This is about the only place I can afford to live. Bet a could even get a place with a yard.
Omg they are barefoot doing this.
A necessary evil till a better way is implemented.
A better way was implemented the video says how it was done safely before it became cheaper to dump them in India.
Mademoiselle, you will find that human life is very cheap in Casablanca.
More like Exploiting instead of Exporting.
They are Destroying ships in "Pa"! Why! How do you get an old ship to Pennsylvania?
How do you abandon a ship in Pennsylvania with no ocean property
On the Delaware River. The Delaware is quite wide and deep enough for large ships. Not the mega teu container ships.
The ports of Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington all get the banana boats.
And the US has to cut emissions and drive electric cars
Why do they find drugs and alcohol?
Ever been on a cruise 🚢?
No I haven’t. Do they hide drugs in weird places, as I would?
@@twenger1 why yes people do just that
only WLM
Your talents are non existent.