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Ship Breaking

Raw oil dumped into the ocean that we all share

Typical ship breaking practices

Zero regard for human safety

A ship carcass onshore

Two dollars per day is a typical wage

Air pollution as another ship breaking byproduct

National Geographic Magazine, May 2014 © Mike Hettwer

Thousands of workers are subjected to these conditions

Ship breaking often occurs directly in the water

Oil spills are a daily occurrence

Massive hull sitting in the ocean waiting to be broken

Breaking happening in the ocean water with chemicals spilling freely

Unsafe practices continue to go unchecked

Up to 1400 per year are broken this way

This is a small section of a 30-kilometer ship breaking site

Oil spill from ship breaking

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