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The Ship-Breakers Who Tear Apart Dead Cargo Vessels By Hand
On the Bangladeshi coast of the Bay of Bengal, past-their-prime oil tankers and cargo vessels are beached on the muddy shore like industrial, open-air graveyards. There, these massive ships are taken apart by men — “ship-breakers” — who toil hand-to-metal for minimal wages on the toxic, exceptionally dangerous sites.