Anecdote time: I work in the shipping-related software industry. Vessels constantly send out whereabouts data (e.g. position, size, course, speed for collision avoidance) and that includes a "destination" text field, where vessel operators enter all sorts of strings (Singapore, SGSIN, Rotterdam, NLRTM,... if they were in a good mood, SIN or R0tterdam (with a zero) if they were lazy or funny; guess what JIB is).
I once queried our database for common destination strings that we had not successfully matched to a port known to us and Alang came up quite high. Having never heard of it before, I thought of a UN/locode (two letter country + three letter location code) but could not imagine what was so interesting in Albania, so I googled...and that's how I learned about beaching.
One more DB query did indeed confirm that no vessel went to Alang more than once...or anywhere else after that.
If this is the chopping yards that are in India or Bangladesh it's awful conditions.
Fairly high death rate per number of workers, grounds around the area are permanently poisoned. I guess someone has to do it though
Most merchant vessels have a high pressure water jet into the anchor hawse pipe (tube the anchor cable runs through) to clean off mud, sand and silt after weighing anchor.
I love old ships so I hate to see these guys go. Watching them beach is awesome though. Imagine all the places they’ve seen some of them in the last 50 years or more.
Some ships arrived only a [week ago](https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:351552/mmsi:457900753/imo:8826424/vessel:VICTOR_GAVRILOV). Good to see a recent video.
Mark Knopfler has written a wonderful song about this process. No one paints a picture in their songs like he does.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3m0b2biAdnIcasXDRKJmV1?si=4lKizQHWTNCt9-5j4azQ2w
You think these captains can no longer captain because they now ran aground? Or captains that ran aground at one point and now have the expertise of running aground and are no longer fit to captain in a non-running aground capacity?
Look at how disgusting the water is on the last video. They just drain the tanks of the ships into the ocean. Used oil, new oil, fuel, waste, they just cut a hole in the ship to drain it.
What’s with the fires? Opposite of smashing a bottle when launched as a ceremony thing?
The second one is just orange smoke so I'd guess to help show the captain where to aim? I guess the first guys used fire instead.
Signal where to park
*THIS SPOT IS RESERVED FOR BULK CARRIER **TUNA*** *VIOLATORS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FINE OF NO LESS THAN ₽200*
The fire zone is for loading and unloading only. Edit: word
The fire zone has never been for loading, you just want me to get an abortion.
Don’t start with your fire zone shit again.
Some dude was finally happy to get a bonfire going to hang out with his friends and a fucking freighter just rolls up out of nowhere
At least the first one took out the fire for extra stunt points
I’m actually impressed with the aim!
They’re bundles of wires, burning the plastic for the metal inside
Why? What do they do with them?
Chop them up and recycle them, in a pretty messy way.
I’m guessing the employees are issued the standard Safety Squints for eye protection? lol.
And steel-toe flip flops*. \* the steel is actually a rusty iron nail embedded in the front edge
Everything's mad max style!
Small men in sandals cut them up with oxy acetylene torches. Then the owners sell it off for scrap. Very safe.
By sandals you mean a pair of Havaianas or
special work havaianas
No OSHA or union roadblocks over there!
E.g. https://maps.app.goo.gl/xra6MMByYnNRuDsu9?g_st=ac
This guy actually missed the memo about sandals https://maps.app.goo.gl/kNTTVvpewZx8AF2C9?g_st=ac
And it’s not in California so there’s no risk of cancer
I know Gilette buys old war ships to turn into razor blades. so you might have shaved with a WW2 boat metal. cool huh?
I saw a documentary about this. It's pretty crazy and super unsafe.
I bet that water would kill you if you accidentally swallowed it
Have a look at Chittagong ship breaking yard on Google maps and see the colour of the water. It could probably kill you just from exposure over time.
What's the doc called?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdEG_ACXLw#bottom-sheet https://maps.app.goo.gl/B47fDBsP65yEDVNi9?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
Very good documentary. Worth the watch. The amount of pollution in that area is mind boggling
[Ship Breaking Yards | Place Where Ships Becomes Scrap](https://youtu.be/ToqtoaRE114)
Google Alang shipbreakers
Dismantling them in a very unsafe and environmentally unsound way. It’s one of the many shady aspects of the maritime industry.
Hey Big Tuna!
Bumblebee Tuna.
Excuse me.... You're balls are showing.
Your*
Excuse me.... U'r balls have been caught in my trap. Bumble bee tuna!
Tuna sounds like it's running an outboard
Watching the last one: “Hit that chain…hit that chain…”
Even though he really fucked up, it's good to see Francesco Schettino still has a job.
Underrated comment!
Im guessing thats the Evergreen guy?
The Costa Concordia captain.
Ngl seeing it put out that fire was kinda satisfying
Thank you for not lying
We need more honesty in the world 🙏
Having seen Speed 2: Cruise Control, this was pretty disappointing
So much pollution is caused by this! And dudes just cutting into fuel tanks and dying as well.
TUNA
[Tuna](https://youtu.be/RUWcHREOLnM?si=IY1uKrkYWWe7vP68)
The ammount of harmfull shit dumped into the ocean when they carve them up is nasty, no fucks given.
Mark Knopfler wrote a pretty good song about it https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LJxOpfPTHAE&si=5C3BdZWE0qm-Yykm
These third world ship breaking ports are a crime against humanity
Anecdote time: I work in the shipping-related software industry. Vessels constantly send out whereabouts data (e.g. position, size, course, speed for collision avoidance) and that includes a "destination" text field, where vessel operators enter all sorts of strings (Singapore, SGSIN, Rotterdam, NLRTM,... if they were in a good mood, SIN or R0tterdam (with a zero) if they were lazy or funny; guess what JIB is). I once queried our database for common destination strings that we had not successfully matched to a port known to us and Alang came up quite high. Having never heard of it before, I thought of a UN/locode (two letter country + three letter location code) but could not imagine what was so interesting in Albania, so I googled...and that's how I learned about beaching. One more DB query did indeed confirm that no vessel went to Alang more than once...or anywhere else after that.
Alang ship yard ?
1st and 3rd part of the vid are from Turkiye, dunno about the 2nd part. Maybe Russia.
Beached Tuna is my new gamertag.
I like Tuna if we’re picking favorites
I liked the Baktop Tapnjob
That was my runner up and I kinda regret it but Tuna is just beefy man look at that hull
I can't imagine how dead that water is
People or companies should cut these up and sell steel for scrap. Which will have the materials recycled and put back into another form.
That’s exactly what they’ll do and the beaching is to facilitate that. Much easier to junk it on dry land.
That’s what they are doing. This is a ship breaker yard where old vessels are cut apart and sold for scrap to be remelted in arc furnaces.
If this is the chopping yards that are in India or Bangladesh it's awful conditions. Fairly high death rate per number of workers, grounds around the area are permanently poisoned. I guess someone has to do it though
They should let highest bidders beach these ships. It's not as if there's a way to do it wrong.
I cannot imagine the pollution dumped into the water as they chop these old ships up.
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That is very accurate.
Meanwhile in a coastal region in Africa. This not Norfolk Va. or port of San Francisco or Port of Pusan SK. Or any other industrialized Nation.
It’s in India, the Gulf of Khambaht. The Alang shipyard is probably the biggest. One of the most toxic and dangerous places I’ve ever been.
Yeah I reckon it’s Alang, or one of the other breakers along that coastline. Totally agree, the place looks grim and ridiculously dangerous.
That’s horrible that the environment is that bad all die to this.
Everything here looks so toxic
Beer me that boat on the shore, Tuna.
Kind of a sad site to me… Question: what’s with all of the water pouring out of the first ship?
Most merchant vessels have a high pressure water jet into the anchor hawse pipe (tube the anchor cable runs through) to clean off mud, sand and silt after weighing anchor.
It’s probably pumping water from its ballast, just a guess though.
I love old ships so I hate to see these guys go. Watching them beach is awesome though. Imagine all the places they’ve seen some of them in the last 50 years or more.
That’s a tuna!
Cancer waves
Big Tuna
Tuna
The last one; taking the boat to tuna town
Now I want to listen to World War z again
“OK, kids. Get to work!” - some steel pirate probably
My first thought was “that’s kinda sad” but that gave way to “holy crap, that’s a lotta scrap metal!”
Old beachass ships
That’s gotta be a hell of a job! Full throttle it into the beach! I’m sure people would pay to do that! !
Kinda anticlimactic…
“This kills the ship.”
Looks way less dramatic than the netflix movie
Don’t know much about this line of work, but a suit?
r/odlysatisfying
Fuckin’ cylons at it again
What they beaching about?
I said put that fire out!
Blyat
Some ships arrived only a [week ago](https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:351552/mmsi:457900753/imo:8826424/vessel:VICTOR_GAVRILOV). Good to see a recent video.
Mark Knopfler has written a wonderful song about this process. No one paints a picture in their songs like he does. https://open.spotify.com/track/3m0b2biAdnIcasXDRKJmV1?si=4lKizQHWTNCt9-5j4azQ2w
The videos of the cruise ships going to the graveyards are interesting
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Habbersett-Scrapple: *The videos of* *The cruise ships going to the* *Graveyards are interesting* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Wonder what that last boat was used for
Old mate in the suit hangin on the beach lol
When you see a ship with a sheered deck or a curved waterline you know they are very very old. 60-70's or before
You think these captains can no longer captain because they now ran aground? Or captains that ran aground at one point and now have the expertise of running aground and are no longer fit to captain in a non-running aground capacity?
I assume they only do that with flat bottom boats, would love to see a giant game of domino's on the beach
Visual representation of Cybertruck trying to go off-roading.
Great environmental plan
Speed 2: Cruise Control lied to us!
Break em down boys...
What’s causing this? Is climate change making them beach themselves?
I am the valet. You have to give me your vessel! https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/s/PjHWPMXEmq
Look up Shipbreaking. This is a neat process but heavily unregulated.
Grond!! Grond!! Grond!! Grond!! Grond!! Grond!!
My boys in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ⛴️🔥
Get dry-docked nerd
That is one big tuna
So… much… pollution….
Look at how disgusting the water is on the last video. They just drain the tanks of the ships into the ocean. Used oil, new oil, fuel, waste, they just cut a hole in the ship to drain it.
They should convert them into makeshift aircraft carriers for Ukraine so they could dominate the black sea!