THE VIDEO SHELF · shipbreaking
SHIPBREAKERS | Would you risk your life dismantling the world’s largest ships just to survive? | NFB
An NFB documentary about the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, where about 40,000 people dismantle huge ships by hand in dangerous conditions.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it for an up-close look at the shipbreaking industry.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- NFB
- Topic
- shipbreaking
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I worked in Bangladesh for 3 years, and it is such a land of contrasts. The main electricity supply company at the time was running manual billings from a big room filled with manual general ledgers, one “T” account per household. It is a humbling, …
Paddywack on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong portSomeone posted this hour long documentary on shipbreaking in the comments a while back. Both mortifying and fascinating to see this industry up close. [VIDEO]
h0l0cube on Hacker News · 2024-05
In ShipbreakingThe cutting apart of ships at their end of life in salvage shipbreaker junkyards is fascinating, terrifying, and sad in equal parts. This (and similar) documentaries of the salvage beaches in India show a lot of interior cutting: [VIDEO] It’s a stark juxtaposition from these …
jitl on Hacker News · 2024-09
In Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
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