Where Ships Go to Die

Wanted to visit cox's bazaar for years. Knew a captain, man whose job was to beach the boat on a spring tide, drive it up the beach to be torn apart. He said from his perspective it was heartbreaking if necessary work.

Rosyth in Scotland was the kinder genteel version. Many good burgers of edinburgh have liner fittings at home.

Came close with a meeting scheduled in Dhaka since cancelled (covid) but came to understand, in looking into how, just how hard, and possibly unwelcome this is. The companies operating the yards certainly don't want tourists and its very JG Ballard disaster tourism.

The plight of the workers is real. This is horrific toxic work. Lethal work.