Echoes of Ship Breaking
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2014
- The bothering heat and shouts of his Mukadam mingles with the echoes of machine and men usually 30 to 70 feet below him. He has to silence it all when he turns on his blow torch and focuses solely on weakening the structure of the very ship he stands on; right now he is working on the metal holdings around the mast. He stands away cautiously as the weakened mast is hooked on to a whinge and it's pulled down. The bulking mast hits the bottom of the hull, the boom reaches his ears and touches his skin, it reminds him a little bit of his village, of his childhood, when he would drop a metal bucket in well to collect water. With no time for nostalgia he gets back to cutting another part of the hull, he does this every day for 8-10 hours; his safety net is his experience.
He is one of the 66,000 workers who work on the ship breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat and Darukhana in Mumbai. They migrate from UP, Orissa, Bihar and various other states across India in search of employment and better life. The job of these workers is to strip the raw materials from these ships and sell them to various integral industries i.e. construction, steel mills, to name a few.
The ship breaking industry as always been surrounded with myths and controversies. With many reports in the media mostly giving it a broad tag of "hazardous to environment" which is far from the truth, what ship-breaking actually does is reuse valuable raw materials striped from a dead ship, which would end up being more hazardous if left in the sea.
The primary pressing issue of ship breaking which gets skirted is its workers. The process of ship-breaking requires workers from the start to the end. Often to skirt costs; untrained contractual workers will be hired, safety equipment will be ignored and benefits will be skimmed.
In this documentary 'Echoes of Ship-Breaking' we'll be entering through the backdoor of the ship-breaking industry to see:
• How the industry processes labour and ships
• How ships are brought in and labourers are hired, and how it starts
• The industry's questionable history regarding worker laws
• Why and how ship breaking reached India
• How ship breaking affects the environment
• Breaking down the process of ship-breaking in India
• Its contribution to India and the future of ship breaking in India - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This Makes it sound a lot better there than it truly is. What a living hell.
Sawing the props apart....by hand?!!! This is cutting edge tech! No safety equipment. Working in shorts and flip-flops?! I've been watching this industry for 7-8 years now. If anything, it has devolved. My heart's out and hats off to these men and women.
"And during this entire process, yard cleaners work on making sure that the yard is clean."
Yet it's still a toxic waste land.
Best shirt ever used at 27:18 "Im smilling because I have no idea of where Im going" LOL...and the guy looked like he has not idea truly.. :)
NEO FENRIR that had me cracking up
The ship breaking industry = HELL.
Why do I get the sense that none of those suits in their plush fancy offices and hardwood desks worth thousands, don't give the slightest damn about solving the problem... but are more invested in simply appearing to give a damn about solving the problem?
I would love to buy a few thousand pairs of work boots and distribute them. I don't have the extra funds though. I think this would make a small difference. Well done documentary. No high minded judgement. Showed the positive aspects and also the areas that have made improvement and areas the still need improvement. Excellent job.
ill help you
Need to get them respirators.
Some manufacturers still use Asbestos in those things, or, are old enough and safety standards in places are lax enough that ships with Asbestos in them are allowed to continue to sail.
Mainly you want to worry about ships made in Russia as they gave zero f**ks about Asbestos because it works so well as fire proof insulation in the engine rooms and such.
I applaud but unless you bring to them.. All stolen
@@kimchiba4570 haha. Yes true. I would bring myself. I will ponder more about this. I would really like to give work boots and two pairs of socks for them.
How about getting them a 3% cut of the tonnage they cut per ship..their wage would grow to 3.34 $us ..per day ..?
This is very hard work. grunt labor. Watching this I cold clean this up with a few pieces of equipment, magnetic cranes, bulldozers, fork lifts, come on. And Hard hats, gloves and boots. and masks for the cutters. Not much money for these things. Could straighten this mess out over night for a small up front cost which would pay for itself over time. The people running this just don't care.
3 bucks a day thats about 1000 bucks a year per grunt a crane would cost about 500000 for a small one , why buy a 50000 fork lift when 20 Indians will lift and its cheaper to hire a new one that fix a fork truck,,,but do these people really look like they care look at the way they live, they all have smokes and cell phones but shit on the ground
Safety training😂what a f....ng joke working with no shoes😂
Yes, very small investment. Those steel toe flip flops don't cut it. I would love to at least hand out some boots. Bring a few thousand pairs
cdmangsen they need you, bad...
Lol did anyone else see the guy with the t shirt that said "I'm smiling because I have no idea what is going on" lol
fuck off
hilarious !!
for the poor workers, more appropriate phrase should be "i dont have sex, my bosses fuck me daily".
I’ve had a vasectomy
Fantastic documentary, thoroughly enjoyed it.
What you like about? No safty anything or there slum living quarters?
Damn, someone is raking in Millions on this breaking business and it damn sure aint those poor workers.
madwah1
i worked it out to be around 90 million net profit per year
ODAGGA Man that's a killing!! And these worker doing all the gritty work are wading knee deep in shit. Slavery is surely alive and kicking
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madwah1 True. I saw a documentary on a ship breaking yard in Bangladesh. The working conditions were much poorer than this place but the men still cheered when a new ship beached. The owner bought the ship for something like $2 million USD. That's more than most Americans can afford and just a mind blowing amount for the average Bangladeshi. You would think the owner would have spare some money to give them boots, gloves, and helmets.
madwah1 -- its 7 usd dollars per one hundred pounds. i only recycle aluminum and copper. i recycled steel 1 time. the dodge was in a barely running condition. over the highway 17 hill. it seemed like the 2 girls at the scales were taking some money for themselves. scuba tank? i can sometimes calculate when a steel piece will break. that would require a fairly accurate weight estimate. then tensile strength omitting shear strength. without using mohrs circle. on ship is worth 10 or 20 million dollars. they have a lot of people.
Excellent video !!!
Very fine video. Well produced and explained.
Yup. Hey, we have "clean" ship breaking right here in the USA. We did it for many years and still do. But we do it very differently...and it costs a LOT more. Just like manufacturing. Its all about the money, folks. Profits!!!!! It does not matter if its ship breaking of making tennis shoes. Follow the money flows and you will almost always end up in a place like this
Very well produced film. Thank you.
Agree
Amazing how the human can make using poor people so the best thing for everybody
Great company video
I work as a welder in a shipyard here in japan and this video is the opposite of everything we do.No safety,No precautions And
No PPE’s. This is Sad.
Yeah I build ships in Halifax Canada and the safety that we go through is so stringent and thorough. I would get fired so fast for not wearing PPE. I Sandblast and spray paint navy ships(mostly the ballast tanks) it is a gnarly job but this takes too of the charts for sure
ECHOES OF SHIP BREAKING. DEC 14, 2021. BEAUTIFULLY FILMED VIDEO PART BY PART. NOT BORING AT ALL.WELL INFORMING IN MANY WAYS. BEAUTIFUL NARRATION.
Half of them don't even have shoes let alone proper boots imagine walking around there in bare feet.
To them; OSHA is a small town in Ohio!
its not even that :D they would just ask "what ohio"
I just watched the Vice documentary about the corruption, hazards, and all around hell of this industry, absolutely horrifying.
This is a Fat Cat promo for Shipbreakers...I notice the guy says"We"...he means "them" the workers!
Damn puts me bitching about my job into perspective.
Jose Krinkle doesn't it though? It made me feel a helluva lot better going into work today.
Looks a very nice place for a holiday, the beach looks lovely..
Hey I’d sit on a beach in a deckchair in a pair of shorts and a gallon of lager, and watch these poor fu*ers, take these ships apart. I’ve been to worse places lol.
Exploitation of the highest degree.
But its a free market isnt it? These people are willing to work such a dangerous job for such low salary. No one is forcing theese peoples to work there.
@@amx8336 Well then do somthing about it, but at the end of the day, nobody is making workers to work there, its their own choice
This documentary is dedicated to any Westerner who is complaining about going to work.
I'm thinking of changing my major and getting a job there, seems like very rewarding work.
Very nice way to explain the process of dismantling a ship's hull. By the way, not the best choice for the voice host. When in the world are this guys who made the video, are going to take one minute of the time, to explaine in which way all these poor workers are insured or fully covered in case of an accident which, by the way, are quite common. I honestly think those bankers still sleep like angels at night, simply because they don't give a peanut to whatever happens to the worker, as long as they make money!!!!!!!!
How is this not the most dangerous job on the planet???
Crab fisherman seems comparatively safe compared to this.
Bonded labor in India.. modern day slavery
I wish I could send them a giant box of gloves and face masks bless their hearts
Lol! This is an commercial for the wonderful world of shipbreaking as a career choice. Showing people handling asbestos with no protection and not even mentioning that they probably won’t live last 40 because of it. Good stuff!
Yeah, had a certain degree of propaganda in favour of the industry...
Glad to see that there is a union, of sorts.
I'm bloody certain that there are far worse jobs in India - there are some fairly shitty ones in NZ, and no amount of money makes up for the danger and long-term effects of working with hideous chemicals to manufacture products that are then marketed as "green".
Makes me want to puke.
16:00 "During the 1800's..." "...but at the beginning of the 19th century" those are the same thing lol
lol lol lol so smart lol
Thank you
the foot wear gets me
.. what footwear?
Wow. It's just the circle of life. Unless you happen to be in the shipbreaking business.
Disgusting exploitation
Ya know. If I decide to travel the globe..id start here.. seriously.. this would be a fresh start.. mentally and physically..
Tough Lads! Brave as Well!
I bet you could make a fortune selling hose repair kits and tip cleaners there
Why not just make gigantic automated plasma-cutter ship-breaking indestructible robot from hell, and unleash its fury?
No one mentioned providing the workers with safety clothing which usually includes safety boots. There's enough profit in ship breaking for the company that is paying the workers to also be able to buy safety clothing . footwear gloves, welding masks and anything else to help these workers. Its not just about huge profit for the fat cats.
Hard hats, gloves and boots. and masks for the cutters. Not much money for these things. Could they unionize and go out on strike?
David Carmichael: you got it wrong mate. it's all about profit. Nothing else really matters. not lives, no1 health, NOTHING!!! it's all ways been that way, and it always will be. did you forget that it was Bangladesh u talking about.
+Polynesianfightnation Aotearoa Kia kaha,Wainuiomata!
+Mike Berg If safety regs higher wages etc,come it will go to the next cheaper place.As they Japanese man explained.
If you gave them boots, I bet you that they would not wear them.
Don't you love the safety features here... ? Helmets, steel toe boots, safety harnesses....
Actually, steel toe boots aren't used where you're working with extremely heavy materials. The steel toe could be crushed onto your foot. They would rather get your foot out of the boot even if its crushed.
very good video Prathamesh sir, i want to learn with you. please i want to join you
sandals!! I cannot imagine how many feet injuries there must be!
Health and safety? nope, never heard of him, I think he must work on the west side of the yard!
Hey, cool. Happily talking about asbestos while workers handle it bare-handed and open-mouthed.
crashstitches79 Well what do you expect them to do? Give each and every person safety gear for a day? What about every other day they have to work?
It's not the filmmaker's responsibility. It's their government's.
33:50. Ship breaking is a green industry. You gotta be kidding me
@ 17.50 That cutter has guts.
Bruce AU that cutter is desperate.
Ship Breakers could never understand what the emotion of being offended is….
Wonder what happens to the communications equipment ?
Aweful!!!
so the Indian construction steels are made out of steel that was saturated in salt water for 30-50+ years?
it it's reforged does it matter?
Damn!! They gotta literally sit there and manually saw that damn big-ass propeller???!!!
i will request everyone to watch NTD doccumentary on shipbreakers in same area.
The interview shots were waaaayyy too boring, I loved the bits where they explained all the jobs like the cleaners, the cutters, the loaders etc. Interesting business.
One of these ships probably carried your vcr.
Please to all rich people reading this, donate food to these ship breaker hero’s please!❤
man, would love to go there, show them how its done with machinery built from the scraps of the ships, make some rail lines, build better cranes, build crushers, get them free safety gear from sponsorship
What is stopping you? You could fix the world! Have you written to them or called? Have you made any real effort to communicate with them?
At 1:26 good picture on wall))
Is it easy to get the name of those ships breaking ??? Before or, after breaking?
they need to do this in dry docs
but sad to think of the future of workers health
Gummy Bear
I agree so much FF,, , one video stated it would take decades,, I would estimate, 50 years to clean and return it to the blue waters it had in the 60's,,,, sad is a truism,,, heartbreaking and angry is what I feel,,, TC,, HAGD
These companies could provide some basic level of safety training as well as a little bit of personal protective equipment (PPE): hardhats, safety shoes, gloves, masks, reflective vests, and safety glasses and they would without a doubt see a massive reduction in the number of injuries and bad press. It would maybe cost $30 per worker, probably less. They don't even have to let the workers keep the PPE, it's literally chump change that would save so much human life.
30 x 60,.000 plus need to replace maybe once a month,,, hmmmm ,,, thats gonna fly right out the door, FD !!!!
Who should I contact or talk to so I can send some cutting shields to these guys ? As a metal cutter myself, a face shield has saved me numerous times.
I think Red Cross might help hand them out if they get them.
Red Cross Complex, Near Khadi Board,
Ashram Road, Old Wadaj,
Ahmedabad - 13
GUJARAT, INDIA
Hey, compared to the conditions in 2004, it looks better.
Good
i'm curios what those peoples were doing(working, eating) before breaking ship industry started there?
dealing drugs :D
I saw these docs years ago and never forgot about these poor people,, God bless there poor enslaved souls.
Is the sky ever blue ?
Such a tough life.
The shipbreaking process would be 10x cleaner, safer, and faster if they worked in a dry dock where the entire ship would be disassembled at once instead of just the bow grounded on the beach.
Too expensive. Sand is cheaper.
@@balargus319 That beach is now a toxic waste site and will be forced to be remediated. The toxins are also washed into the ocean at high tide.
@@epistte The beach is indeed toxic now. However, it is still cheaper to the point of being profitable, and the international regulatory environment for shipbreaking has a race to the bottom disincentive against regulation or environmental cleanup.
They USED to use drydocks, but eventually the costs of doing it the right way became too high, and the benefits of doing it the $$$$ way irresistable.
Anyone notice the hundreds of acetylene and oxygen tanks in the background
No pesky OSHA snooping around
Im disturbed by the fact these people are doing that work without proper safety, such as sandals!
Wonderful safety measures used here.
Protectective hard hats, and flip flops.
Did that guy have the nerve to say it is "environmentally friendly"? The camera man should have slapped him.
Actually it is probably a little less damaging to environment then mining and smelting done to make new steel but surely is not environment friendly at all
Arjun Singh no it’s not.
All these breaking companies say this in every documentary I've ever watched about Alang and Mumbai.
a perfeclly good ship.
The ships are old , worn out, and maintaining them cost more than they are worth. It's not like an old car.
I'm a welder and I cut a lot with a torch I wouldn't want to go and change the way these people work because it's not my place but I'd def like to buy them some boots or face shields
very sad to see destruction of the workers health and the environment. the earth has no hope
its like a house.
POOR PEOPLE :-(((((( THERE IS NO OPTION BUT TO ADAPT TO SLAVERY ,INCOPENTENCE , INDIFERENCE, THIS IS THE WORLD WE LEAVE IN , I PRAY TO GOD TO END THIS !!!!
They need to have some invirmental safety installed in their yards safety and pay is up to then but invirmental standards are needed
I could do the work of 10 with the simple invention of a 2-wheeler from HF.
We're all part of this. Have you ever bought anything imported. I know i have. I'm typing on something that came on a ship.
Shame of you Narendra Modi ( Chief Minister of Gujarat)
Narendra is living the good life he does not work there he does not give a f..k☁😕
job is hell on earth
Advertesing hell.
Ironic....they need the work, yet in North America, other than environmental laws, you could automate most of the process....if you have cheap steel and labour, you can just build stuff to make the whole process more efficient...there are more than enough resources on site to improve the whole work atmosphere, speed it up, clean it up, make it easier to work....I'm Canadian, they let me go there for a year, they would be doing 500 ships a year, and have less injuries, prob less staff though, man...I'd love to go there and run that, no rules, you'd seem like a saint for making it safer
Wow. You're a fucking genius. Let's write them a letter and they will be begging you to come over.
what is the industrial death level on this enterprise??
poor workers
17:50 wow guy cutting right behind the collapse
That’s a final cut.
@@VRPrath yep final cut,of that load swung back hes dead.Not worth it.Got 20 men to take his job over scrap metal.Owner needs to invest in some Heavy equipment its sad
🤘🤘
All compartments tested and declared gas free? Bet a lot of have blown themselves into pieces.
Been doing it for three centuries you say since 1838 you say! Hmmm me thinks you are not all that familiar with the actual definition of a century!
Just by eyeballing it though it looks like the ship breaking yards in India arent nearly as bad as the ones in Bangladesh.... well they're all bad but you understand what I'm saying
@9:27 I KEW that respirators and long sleeves slow the asbestos segregation workers. Flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt is all you need
Receycling is always a green industry.... no doubt. Ok, the beach is black, but better as to sink the ships on the deep ocean grounds.
Seems to be better regulated in India than in Bangladesh
Greedy people have no regard for human life. Unbridled breeding in India major problem. India rich in gold.
Yesterday I went to McDonald's and they forgot to put pickles on my burger
Dan Laesu,Heres my answer for you,I think you are truly sicks honestly speaking,may I ask why Sir? it's because it's seems to me all the problems of human beings here on earth,or individual human beings here on earth,you are trying to blames that to the world, I think you are totally out of your mind after all,truthfully,blames the corrupt government and their evil religions controlling their country,and whoever the human beings they worships here on earth,and its affecting their life without knowing yeah! inbesides,human beings here on earth,individual human beings made their own choices in their life,and no matter what choices they made either poor or rich,thats their decisions in their life,and you cannot blames that to some one else or to the other peoples,the world had nothing to do with it when it comes into their life of choices and decisions making in their life Sir,I think you are totally,disgusting by your lies,and influence by the evil religions man made here on earth Sir,it'really sad are they Sir? I answer another guy also,but not quiet thesame my answer to you Sir,and next time before you open your mouth search the truth Sir,It look's like to me you are a total loser and full of ego.it's sad.I mean no offend or no harm,enjoy your day pls,kindly Sir.and thanks.
onde está a OIT da ONU
Where's Arbeidstilsynet?
Madness
MOST OF THOSE LAZY PEOPLE JUST SIT OR STAND AROUND
hahahahahaha rude bwoy :D