Shipwrecks in Nouhadibou, Mauritania

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Uploaded by on Nov 25, 2007

Shipwrecks in Nouhadibou, Mauritania

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

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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...

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

  • someone should recycle all that scrap metal.

  • Weird and spooky!

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