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labourers in the shipbreaking yards, toiling away under the hot sun. apparently around 200,000 people work in the shipbreaking industry103 views
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Chittagong city. so different now from when i lived there as a child. tall buildings everywhere, congested....103 views
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huts built on the hill slopes, nestled among the trees103 views
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Abbu buying fruits at the village market101 views
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half this supertanker has been dismantled already. every part of the ship is going to end up getting used again - nothing is wasted here, everything possible is "recycled" in a poor country like bangladesh101 views
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Abbu (my dad) and Chuck. the labourers in the distance are carrying a huge refrigerator. almost all manual labour here - everything is done by hand. no cranes to lift & move heavy objects101 views
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woman working in a field on a steep hillside100 views
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Abbu buying bamboo shoots in the market100 views
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you can see the crab at the center of the pattern. they run out, scoop up sand into little balls and place them into rows... filtering the sand for food i assume.100 views
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railway crossing in the little town99 views
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rickshaws in the bustling small town market99 views
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cooking food at a food-cart in a village market by the side of the highway99 views
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bangladesh doesn't produce steel. 80% of our steel is derived from the scrap metal from these ships99 views
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it was fascinating to watch these monster huge ships being taken apart99 views
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hanging out with the village kids99 views
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one of my young teenage cousins, Yasser, died in the ocean a few years ago. this life guard station (behind us in the photo) was built in his memory99 views
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most of the supertankers of the world are taken apart in Bangladesh, here in Chittagong, by the Bay of Bengal. you can see the ships in the background that are being dismantled.98 views
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