India - Ship Breaking 

(17 Feb 1995) RR9507/D - INDIA: SHIP BREAKING
(dur: 6 min 4 sec/eng. sot: 1 min 2 sec)
The Indian beach of Alang near Bhavnagar in Western Guajarat
State is one of the largest ship breaking yards in the world. At
any one time more than a hundred vessels from small cruisers to
massive oil tankers can be seen scattered in pieces across a
five kilometre stretch of the shore. Working a gruelling seventy
hours a week in soaring temperatures crews of Indian workers
have turned the place into a vast and eerie ship's cemetery.
SHOWS
Alang, Guajarat: workers' cottages and ship breaking yard;
crane; workers; ships berthed at sea; workers carrying metal
sheets; welders cutting metal with ships in background; people
knocking out rivets; crane lifting steel plate; welding; sorting
out metals; piles of ferrous metals; non-ferrous metals; wires;
ships and yard; man sweeping tin plate; end of ship's hull being
cut; engines; sorting and cutting cables; cutting crew on ship;
cutting superstructure; superstructure falls away; workers on
ship's stern; section topples over; Bhavnagar: metal being cut
at strip mill; blast furnace with metal being extracted; Alang:
shop selling wood; buyers inspecting tea urns; man carrying wood
off in cart; Bhavangar: Maritime Board building, Chairman of
Gujarat Maritime Board H.P. Jamdar sot, partially underlaid;
Alang Yard: welder, sparks from superstructure, side of tanker
collapses, oil burning from hidden tanker, yard with work in
progress (WTN).
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