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  • Ace! What was this filmed on can I ask? It had the quality of old film.

  • amazing photography,impressive,more than a documentary...

  • First class job Armin!

  • This video is a favorite on Stockholm

  • Music is awesome :)

  • This sorta likes scenes from star wars after the Sand People jack their shit up

  • @docphotop. Go to google maps and look at Alang, see the oil spilling in to the sea and then you will understand the impact of running ships up the beach. Do a little research and you will understand these breakers use child labour and every 2 days someone is killed by accidents or industrial related diseases. Modern breakers do not use up the beach methods, they are put in to docks and dismantled correctly. But hey, what would I know. Doesn't affect me, I'll turn a blind eye. Nice job.

  • Kind of a sad video. Each of those monstrous ships is a triumph of engineering and construction. I'm sure many of them are/were still seaworthy. It's just that the cost of operating them has exceeded the benefit they provide, and now they're worth more as scrap. Shame.

  • The sooner the HK convention is ratified and these breakers are closed down the better.

  • @aegflota THEN WHO'S GOING TO SCRAP THEM? BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT YOU NEED THESE SHIP BREAKERS B/C THEY'RE WILLING TO RID THE WORLD OF UNSEAWORTHY WRECKS THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BREAK UP BY ACCIDENT & RUIN PRISTINE COASTLINES.

    BESIDES - THIS IS A RECYCLING EVOLUTION, NONE OF THE SCRAP ON THESE BEACHES GOES TO WASTE.

  • wao!!

  • Top quality vid, best i have watched for some time.

    The night shots with the oxy torches were especially good

  • Hard hats? We don't need no stinking hard hats!

  • Looks quite dangerous :/

  • Watching this again, and I wonder how these men can keep the sparks away from cloth! OSHA would have field day. I noticed to they don't use big claw like machinery like they did with the MV Server.

  • This was amazing! Love the Techno! But that was very interesting. This is stuff most people don't think about. I knew a man who owned a restaurant and here, he was an Oil Tanker Captain and he got out of that because he retired and came home to his family. He had a restaurant named The Captains Wheel and he made good food. But this is a very good video.

  • Wow termite monkeys.

  • @MrCriticOfAll hahaha.........ya

  • very nice video, thanks

  • quite impressive

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  • god the music is awful... why they put this music on great video?? why??

  • fucking disgusting brown people....

  • @plotchickens

    i am brown and i would like to meet you , 29 oct saturday , The Spire ? we can have a cup of coffee and maybe later dinner , than i would like to show you more brown things in my place ...

    I am "bi" so it's ok, i swing both ways ...

    message me...

  • The West builds ships, Pakistan breaks them up.

  • @Invesigator How long has Korea and Taiwan been 'the West'?

  • @harryfaber Not in geographical sense. I would say these two and Japan since end of 2 world war were and still are more western countries than half of the Europe.

  • imagine how much thats worth in todays scrap metal market......

  • @foxdmulder a million for container ships but splitting the copper hah. Most likely another million. Super tankers like the massive Jarhe Viking would 10 million. Thats why steel prices at the local scrap yard were somewhat low because the scrap from that ship prompted worldwide steel scrap prices to drop from 25 cents a pound to a 5 cent difference yes really

  • what kind of ship is on 7:00?

  • fucking disgusting niggers, you are ship butchers.

  • @plotchickens Go and cry you white scum.

  • i don't cry, i get even. i knocked out an indian guy last week at my local club, it was great. nigger.

  • @plotchickens How are you going to knock out a Pakistani, when we don't go to any pub clubs?

  • maybe he was a janitor then xD

  • one of the coolest vids ive seen in a while

  • It may not be pretty, but it has to be done. All these thousands of tons of steel is recycled. What would you do with obsolete ships if they did not do this? These ships have a limited lifespan. They have to be disposed of somehow. It has to be quick, efficient and as inexpensive as possible. This industry and the men who work so hard at it deserve our respect, not the derisive insults I am reading here.

  • very good nice vid

  • love it. complete freedom from scumbag claim lawyers and inscurance companys , no strangulation from the pencil pushing health and saftey man, just raw danger and goosebumps! LIVING!!

  • Kinda strange that they dont fall over to a side?

  • OSHA would have a field day ....

  • I really hope the company cares about the workers safety! Looks like a very dangerous job.

  • surrealistic

  • Video is awesome, an interesting and well suited choice of music.

    Very well edited.

    Well done.

    Fuck the haters.

  • mute this song and put on "So far from the clyde" instead if you don't like the music. it works out well

  • Reminds me of ants devouring a caterpilla carcass.

  • Really good video, nice quality !

  • And they all wear the proper clothing for such work also. Love those hard hat towels. ;D

  • @Ghstwn yeah and i love the steel toes nails bare feet boots ...

  • great video ,great tune ,great.

  • Music SUX re-edit with either no sound or something better, wrecked the video .

  • Good video but the music is at least not appropriate fore this kind of video.

  • I can see something similar on the Elbe river in Hradec Králové in Czech republic now. But in smaller scale.

  • Only the Pakistanis and Indians would exploit their poeple like this by making them work in such disgusting and dangerous conditions. They clearly don't value their own people, as we all knew!!!!

  • @semperfidelis677

    You think so? Check out the Shipbreaking in Chittagong Bangladesh. When it comes to safety gear, it makes these guys look like nuclear physicists in comparison!

  • @theyanchamp Yes I think so! Because there are worse sites in the world it dosnt excuse this lot... stupid!

  • what a fine cutting job they made of that ship

    it takes years to build and months to break

    stephen business Media addhand.com

  • And people wounder why the oceans are starting to get fucked up.... Please tell me you clean the tanks and remove the asbestos in a enviromentaly friendly way BEFORE these ships End there lives

  • That looks amazingly dangerous.

  • People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned office, imagine having this as your only option in life, good thing the ship breaking business is going out of business in many parts of the world.

  • it is shit music

  • Great video! I watched it with the sound down and Mark Knopfler's "So Far From The Clyde" playing on iTunes for a very different experience....and yes, Glasgow, through which snakes the 106 mile long river Clyde, is in Scotland.

  • the music fits this video perfectly.

  • why do the best videos have the shittiest music

  • @boognish1975: Well, there was no music at all in that video so what do you prefer then? There are at least 135900 persons who like the music...

  • @Filmcollectief Personally I would have gone with anything but crappy UNF-DA-UNF-DA-UNF-DA dance music. Despite being bad music it doesn't fit the video. The footage is large and epic, and the music is fast and cheesy.

  • @Filmcollectief have you been to that ship breaking place in Pakistan- if so can you get permission to walk around (as you can in Bangledesh) or are the strict? The sheer size of those vessels is amazing.

  • @Filmcollectief Prefer no music. This would have been a good video if we didn't have to listen to THUMP THUMP THUMP while we are trying to take in the atmosphere of the content within the video. Ass.

  • @Filmcollectief No, nobody liked the music. Total crap/noise. They simply turned off the sound to watch. Video good music awful.

  • @Filmcollectief Music is AWESOME!!!

  • yes, its a very nice documentary with good music.

  • capitolism at its ugliest

  • @12valvepower1

    yeah, cause Communism is WAY cleaner. Russia and China totally give a crap about their workers and their environment

  • @boognish1975 This is badass music!

  • @boognish1975 Thank God it wasn't Sound System 009.

  • A hard and dangerous Job.

  • Let Me Guess, .50 Cents per hour, per man? Shame!

  • Every ship has a soul...how could they possibly justify doing this?

  • @CupcakeVamp

    Simple, everything has got an end. As much as I love some ships, it is an inevitable fact that it is impossible to keep them all in good shape. If you look at the men who are demolishing them, you should see them as the undertakers who are respectfully disposing the remains of a beloved.

    And bear in mind that their sacrifices for the souls of the ships are plenty. 

  • 4:35 Star Wars

  • song is as bad as pakistans government

  • i was lookin so long for this documentary!

  • great video, some amazing footage here

  • Hiii, This is Alang, world largest ship breaking yard. Thousands of ships breaking units giving lots of raw materials to iron and foundries company. Your esteem cars and refrigerator, your bike body's steel or iron may be manufactured from Alang scrap plant.

  • @mogliashu: I really liked it to make a new compilation of it and I have respect for what you are doing there.

  • @mogliashu this is famouse GADANI SHIP BREAKING BEACH PAKISTAN.

  • 20,000 tons? maybe $10 millions of dollars aprox??

  • @vergudote99

    Nah, that ship was max 7-8000 tons lightweight, market price today is about 420 dollars per ton in india/pakistan for a bulker like that, so approx 3.2 - 3.3 million US. And would have to know exactly when she was beached, because at market peak in 2/3q 2008, they were excess $550/ton, and dropped to close to $200/ton after the crisis..

  • safety first

  • Great video, very nice camera work!

  • kosmos :)

  • Behold the power of the fiery wrench!

  • la musica te la metes donde yo se

  • Someone's got to do it and these are the only people that will do it at for the amount on offer. Until that changes it will continue.

  • RESPECT!!!!!!!

    

  • No but i want to be!!!!

  • Anoyone knows how to get hold of these scrap ships??????

  • @wwwakinmotorscom =why, are you a millionaire?

  • Is This Oxy Or Broco?

  • cool video, nice music!

  • OMG .......Let the Party begins ..

  • Ok this looks more like a film than a reality documentary. Search for "Ship Breaking in Bangladesh" then you'll see the true horror of this industry.

  • Shipbreaking funds Terrorism in this country.//

  • such horrible polution goes on in those ship yards, freakin 3rd world countries don't know shit about the enviroment.

  • @takefootoff How about, "I need to eat and this is the highest paying job I can find at $4 a day."

  • @JarSqwuid How about I get you a job there? I can and I will if you are willing. Then after you can tell me if it was worth it or not. This will stop, but in the meantime, would you like a job? It can be arranged.

  • This must stop! People are killed and injured by this process. Untold amounts of cancer causing agents are released that kill many more!

  • @bryan760 I think people are more concerned abut feeding their families.

  • @JarSqwuid I think their families are more concerned about feeding off of them.

  • where's the toxic waste spewing on the ground!!

  • I wouldnt mind having ago at that. It looks rather awsom. Cant be that difficult.

  • @iloveplanetrock It's the world's most dangerous job. The toxins inhaled alone will kill you. You couldn't last a minute. Trust me. You don't want to do this.

  • clip is better with original audio, imo. a magnificent doc nevertheless

  • how much gas would they need to decompose this ship.

  • i think it unreal 3 or 4 of them die each day no cranes just bare muscle,,the could dismantle them in ship yards but around 30000 people that depend on it would starve ,,the world doesnt revolve around the usa dandebl pull your head out of your arse

  • @MrMARKGERO graveyard

  • they wont have any lungs sooner than they think

  • The remains at the end show you how effective they are at their job

  • Many thanks for posting this video. Great Job. Been wanting to know about ship decommissioning for a while now. Do you know how many tons this ship is in the video?

    How many days it took to break apart the ship?

    How many people in total worked on the ship?

    How many hours a day?

    I would love to know the answers to these questions

    Many thanks in advance

  • like flies round a shite ! !

  • 4:35 the guy wouldn't look out of place on Tatooine.

  • brilliant would like to go see them do this ! and @ 6.35 WHAT A PICTURE ! say's a thousand words

  • Like pygmies eating an elephant, one bite ata time......

  • I wish the music wasnt so terrible on this otherwise great video

  • @Rabhadh I understand Mark Knopfler saw this video and wrote the song "So Far From The Clyde" - check it out on youtube. It's an INCREDIBLY crafted song by the most brilliantly gifted song writer, poet and artist of all time in my opinion. (Clyde built ships - in the north of England were some of the finest vessels ever built in their time).

  • @nationalo the clyde isnt in england asshole.

  • @sitinrighthere Why are you so angry and rude????

  • @5hitpie because the clyde isnt in england asshole. and he's thick as fuck

  • @sitinrighthere WOW… Scottish pride?! Well excuuuuse me, LOL. Maybe if I'd said UK you'd have stayed in your intellectual hole? My sincere apologies for offending you so. Thanks so much for your ELOQUENT description of me, so pleasant! – go brush up on some words "Professor McIdiot" while I hone in on my appalling geography. HaHa!

  • @nationalo Clyde is the rivers name, the name of shipyard was "John Brown shipyard" where magnificent queens were born!

  • @nationalo hi there great comment. I dont think MK saw this video because he talks about the ship breaking yard of Alang India. It would be interesting to see what he saw exactly. Its the largest shipping breaking yard in the world and all the big ships come there, check it out on ytube. I wasnt living too far from Alang, if you go down to India check it out, then listen to the song - very moving.

  • Yes, those helmets are pretty damn good when you've got 200 hundred tons heading down towards you. Thank God they don't have the idiots from the health and safety executive that we have here in the UK,, the country would grind to a halt, although thinking about it, they would think of something to stop that from happening........"take cover" shit too late!!

  • the professionalism of these people is...... .. well it isnt there!

    Im glad to see they are wearing helmets!

    Damn western companies having to make 1 buck extra when selling their scrap metal

  • I have worked on the ship in this film. No one died. If you follow the instructions it is not danger than to drive a car.

  • Great track for a great video.

  • nice video!

  • this is taken from workingman's death, quite a good documentary. this clip makes it seem fun and exciting. but it's dangerous. many ways to get killed doing the job.

  • You would do it for a day.......

  • good video end good musik THX

  • A life of shipbreaking is often a short one, and one that often ends violently and tragically. Breaking up ships is a necessary industry, but there's got to be a better way than taking advantage of these ultra poor people who can't do much better for themselves. It's a grim proposition......choosing either to starve or risk getting sick , injured, or killed in the breaking yards. Though costly, I'd much rather see western countries dispose of ships locally, where it can be done safely.

  • I the workers will disagree with you.

  • interesting clip, good tune too

  • all wearing the same type of cloth..LoL

  • Great tune. I love taking a bunch of ecstacy and breaking a ship.

  • fuck this song!

  • keep it up man.

    good job.

  • The biggest polluters in the world are the Western Countries. The amount of Food that is wasted in the Fast Food Restaurants in the West that is wasted each day, can feed the hungry around the world for weeks if not months. The amount of CO2 emitted just by US is 20% of the world total, yet US only makes 5% of the world population.

    So the biggest polluters are the Westerners, their small efforts are neglible when looking at the excesses. They don't care about the environment.

  • Haha, silly bitch and his made up statistics.

  • The oil and fuel of the ship is also recovered in the containers.

  • @datzburier sure it is , its not spilling out in the oceans and what about when the cutters cut in to a tank with fuel and it blows and kills many. the safety of these workers does not matter , the rich get richer and the poor die.

  • Great video, but I believe the song doesn't fit at all.

  • great video ! what is the name of the song?

  • Dj Tiësto & Armin van Buuren - Eternity

  • Very Awesome Video, 5 stars

  • great video.........

  • It's common to see 13 year old boys blasting away with a cutting torch in the Indian yards. Often they have no safety gear on and earn pennies at best. Shipbreaking is an ugly business, but disposal of those things has to be done. It could be done more responsibly in the West is environmentalist freaks weren't so bent on stopping it. You can have fair labor, or you can have clean environment...But not both. It would cost hundreds of times more to scrap ships on a large scale in Europe or the US.

  • @Lex5576

    Shipbreaking is also environmentally clean, even in Pakistan, or any other developing country. The workers pick up even the last Kilogram of scrap. Laborers can pick up as much as leftover as possible, & sell it in open market, where about 2 KG of scrap Metal is sold for $1, or almost as much as their whole days work. So, who would leave all that money lying around, rusting in the ocean? Nothing gets wasted. The industry benefits, the people benefit, the shipbreakers benefit.

  • @datzburier

    Rubbish! The heavy metals lead paint, mercury, asbestos etc. that comes from old ships is nasty ship.

  • @datzburier You are an idiot, what happens to the PCBs and fuel oil that sinks into the sand and poisons the skin of the workers? Who cares about the scrapmetal

  • @poppiesrule how bout the asbestos the have the children remove

  • carachi rock hai bhai lage rahoo viva Carachi viva Pakistan

  • People of various cultures are just amazing. These men work without hard hats, safety boots, or most other basic safety features, features we in the west take for granted.

  • thay are like little ants trying to break apart a dead animal. which is the ship. amazing

  • nice video

    good job

  • Beautifully made video.. Great Job.. It would have bettered if it would have captured the environmental hazards the industry is casuing.

  • the guy at 7:10 nearly did apu in his pants!

  • y dont they just sell some to buyers

  • the hull thickness gets down to a minimum, so its dangerous to keep using them.

  • the mix is awsom n suits the diesel industry

  • awesome video. worth the full 7 1/2 minutes! Really well produced and brilliant sound track!

  • Brilliant Video... nice shots....

  • Is this ULCC Sea Giant last shown in video ?

  • cool video =)

  • that's dangerous job man....those guys don't even wear any safety gear

  • The remains of that ship at the end shows you how efficient they are.

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