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2 unusual facts about Shipbreakers


Shipbreaker

Shipbreakers, a 2004 documentary film that explores the practice of ship breaking decommissioned vessels in India.

Shipbreakers

An impoverished third world shantytown of 40,000 on the Arabian Sea, Alang also has few environmental or safety restrictions to protect the villagers who dismantle the ships (which have been run aground on the beach) from workplace dangers and toxic substances such as PCBs and asbestos.


Arthur Rostron

When his former ship, the much-beloved Mauretania, sailed for Scotland to the shipbreakers in 1935, Rostron was supposed to have been on board; however, overcome with emotion, he refused to board her and instead waved farewell from pierside, preferring to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.


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