Shipwrecks in Nouhadibou, Mauritania

[dkklwohl1]

They aren't actually ship "wrecks", but rather the result of corrupt government who took money from people who wanted to dump their ships. Just like someone else said, check it out on Google Earth. The location is located above and you will be amazed. There are hundreds and hundreds of them along the shore.

[jrkepler]

Its more of a junkyard than anything, for whatever reasons Mauritania law has a loophole in it that allows shipping companies to walk away from wrecked ships. This saves them the money of having to sail or tow a vessel to a breaking yard. So companies simply ram their boats up on the shore and walk away, without any worry about environmental remediations, and without having to pay for crew and fuel to go to one of the few remaining breakers like Chittagong, Bangladesh

[sharkgirlrox]

so like all these ships are just sitting there wrecked? could somebody please explain the situation cuz im confused

[Sonicbluespeedster]

tht is weird. ALL those, wrecks? hmmm...questionable, but they were all rusty and stuff and I'm sure more appeared in the background while recording

[andyseamaster]

@Sonicbluespeedster the video is absolutely true. If you look the Nouhadibou bay in Google Earth you will see a huge number of shipwrecks there. Is like a scrapyard of ships, actually.

Greetings.

[andyseamaster]

Canadians: Please change your course 15 degrees south to avoid collision...

US Navy: negative, please change your course 15 degrees north to avoid collision.

Canadians: Negative, please change your course as requested...

US Navy: Negative. This is the USS Abraham Lincoln, the biggest aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Fleet, escorted by five destroyers and eight frigates. Please change your course.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call...

[sins25]

@andyseamaster HAHAHHAHAHAH tooooo funny!!! that just made my day~~!! :)

[Teyis927]

Man, That's creepy!! Maybe that area's cursed? lol

[drumbago]

someone should recycle all that scrap metal.

[VictrolaJazz]

Weird and spooky!

[ukelipukel]

i wanna go there :DD

[DavePerre]

ALL of those are wrecks!?

[GermanSheperds]

Wow! Thats kinda sad to see all those ships sitting in the shallow water like that.

[916fanatic1]

wtf?

[skamp25]

I wonder if the local council will consider replacing the bulb in the lighthouse now...

[cee18drbee18]

if they where worth the money as scrap do you think the owners would just dump them?

[64tbolt64]

how do i just find them on coast with google earth? Just go to the coast and start looking?????

[mastersduhgree]

Could a person go over there with a barge and scrap them out?...Have you seen the price of steel?...its gone through the roof.A car is worth ?300 if you can drag it to the scrap yard.

[bikercc]

those are like 10 football fiels wide try dragging that to the scrap yard

[408lynn]

DAMN! What is going on over there! If any more wrecks occur u won't be able to see the shore!

[TheCrazyFinn]

These are Mauritanian fishing boats. They are too small to compete with the international, mostly European ships, which exploit Mauritanian waters. These ships were abandoned there because their owners couldn't afford to fuel them, anymore.

[mondeost2202008]

DAMN! thats a lot of wrecks there and I know thats just about a small portion of it. I checked out the google maps one and I was like WTF. Talk about the drunken masters.

HMMM.... Now where did I left mine? Oh! there it is ;P

[nateanderson1977]

Dammit! I told that valet not to park it next to that tanker. He is NOT getting a tip. Whats taking him so long?

[Randomstuffs261]

I dont see it !

[FRIKKENAWESOME]

check it on google maps theres loads

[Liam7272]

There are two many dumbass drunken sailors thats why there are so many.

[elmarko99]

two many? you're a retard.

[watchinu66]

Man that's nothing, look on Google Earth at East coast of India, there are thousands of ships there, even Aircraft carriers. They tow them there and they are chopped up & sold as scrap

[roudy1689]

"the reason i called all you shipwrecks together..."

[Mstar7]

Want to see something really disturbing, type in Nouadhibou, Dakhlet Nouadhibou, Mauritania in google maps, go to the satilete option and look at all the abondoned ships.

[boeingLL747]

they stretch for miles!

[dannyman1995]

there are hundreds!!

[Obsequious1]

WOW. Thats crazy. All that steel just sitting there rusting away. Thats one hugh grave yard. What are they doing with them all.??

[CraigJTeare]

did the guys who left the boats there think of getting a tow of another boat

[ultradumbass]

what they doing there? they look like they could of sailed another 5 feet.

[ZeroGal5]

Wow, those were alot of ships. I was like a friggin' grave yard, it's always so sad when ships suffer such a fate. Great vid, spooky though! 0_0

[jSalvoni]

ahh its like a shipwreck reunion!

[IkeSpike321]

I think those ships were left there doring WW1 or WW2 and sometimes the army will leve them there in a crises or recreat

[goddessofvictory]

what happen? why are those ship there for and not at the bottom

[blue2u5]

omg! that was SO scary! are you sure you were on a beach and not in a graveyard for ships? did you call the cops or did everyone know about it?

[VioletJason]

Pretty Amazing if you ask me...

[roaklin]

I'm not sure if this is such an area, but there are certain areas on the planet that are just murder on ships. Weather cripples them, currents shove them ashore, fog, etc. I've read there was a lot of such areas like this in South America before ships had engines. If there isn't anyone nearby to offer a ship in trouble a tow, well guess this is the end result. Kind of like how certain intersections in town seem to have more car wrecks then other places this area just has more wrecked ships.

[ZeroGal5]

Yeah, that's same place is where the 'Oceanos' sank just a few years ago. She surcumed to bad weather and HUGE waves. :(

[speed5353]

What's up with all these shipwrecks in the same place? Anyone know??

[shipsthatsink]

nice i gota go there

[humvee600]

wow, what happen here and how many ships is there

[EVILDALEK]

its like a graveyard but with dead ships

[jcv8994]

that's pretty eerie.

[trainandplanes]

wow its proboly low tide

[jpnrc]

i live @ 5 miles from this beach, in the 80's...there were less boats!!!

damn, i have a tear!!!

have you more videos???

[PlayersLightKingSize]

I dont understand why there is so many ship wrecks are these historic?

[DrMasopic]

Yeah thes boats are here cuz the cap'ns' were all high and drinking rum!

[westindude]

These are fishing boat's im looking for cruisliners washed up....

[TurboPekka]

This is sick...

[daert1]

actually, this is one of the main salvage areas for retired vessels. people take apart old ships for scrap metal. Its all planned and no one is hurt.

[TurboPekka]

I did some resheartch and didn´t find anything about shipbreaking. It´s just a graveyard!

[daert1]

I was wrong, but all of them were abandoned without casualties