Shipbreakers in Gadani beach, Pakistan

This is amazing, everybody knows the shipbreaking yard in Alang, India but there is also one in Gaddani or Gadani beach in Pakistan. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is a centre for the breaking up of derelict ocean-going vessels for scrap. The yard is located in Gadani, Pakistan, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi.
This is a compilation from the documentary "Workingman's Death", see www.workingmans...
In the 1980s,the Gadani yard was described as the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in India and Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with the Gadani yard producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced twenty years ago. A reduction in taxes on scrap metal led to a modest resurgence at the Yard, which now employs around 6,000 workers.
In this clip we see in about 7 minutes how a ship is placed on the beach and breaking apart.

[@mauricehannon9228]

I agree, this may be the best video on KZbin

[@Calwinn]

Been visiting this video for years here and there. Always amazing when stoned.

[@laurikotivuori1585]

Still?

[@Calwinn]

@@laurikotivuori1585 Always

[@vinny42042]

Haha me two

[@alishahnawaz4983]

Very good video very good camera work very good music

[@MayflowerTrust]

Excellent stuff! Good cinematography! Beautifully shot! Thank you!

[@vonFisch]

Great video, very nice camera work!

[@Vincent-wl4yb]

I wonder where all this steel goes after. Is it re-exported? Because to be recycled, it needs to go to a steel mill.

[@peteacher52]

In a way sad, by our way of reckoning sad, but in Pakistan, there would be a multitude of equally hazardous jobs, say, in the construction and railway industries, or simply surviving in the cities. Each "new" ship beached causes happiness amongst the workers because it means another three months or so of employment and food for families. These are very brave men.

[@allistairc123]

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!!

[@orsoncart9441]

100% Agree

[@leoborn4013]

If they were payed fairly and would choose to work there instead of getting forced to do those dangerous jobs by poverty I would agree too. But the people are getting treated like trash and when someone dies, nobody cares. Heard a story of a friend who worked in Gaddani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan of a worker who fell down a ships cargo hatch and wasnt retrieved until the part of the ship he died in was getting cut up. Its a dirty business and everybody is only for himself…

[@maggy59]

Fascinating video, looks like a heck of a dangerous place to work though. Thanks for sharing this video with us.

[@jfchonors8873]

This video glamorizes an industry where there is no regard for worker safety. Life expectancy for these laborers is 45 years

[@antonioaraujo3029]

Muito bom vídeo. Admiro a construção dos navios . Como são bem construídos. Dá até pena de ver essas obras de arte sendo destruídas. Parabéns pelo trabalho pessoal . Abraços. 👍👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@dk3381]

I work as a welder in a shipyard here in japan and this video is the opposite of everything we do.No safety,No precautions And No PPE’s. This is Sad.

[@deconteesawyer5758]

You copy/paste the same shit multiple times on every video you see. Doesn't that run up your mom's internet bill ?

[@iamjbpeel]

Amazing video i loved it and favrioted it is there any way i could get the music that is in this video?

[@051TEFFY]

Thank God for volume on my speakers!!!!!!

[@herrbohnen]

How much does the gas cost as a proportion of the scrap value?

[@cryptoindia420]

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[@Grunt0369USMC]

think about all the heavy metals. pcb's and other hazards simply flushed back into the ocean

[@alnaffaygroup.Network]

very informative video in too much short time... appreciate

[@shotfirer1972]

As far as i jnow, the Alang shipbreaking yards were closed last year. google sems to show lots of ships there, my version anyway. Excellent video!

[@Toyota4Life]

Insane. But then you have baseball players getting paid millions but these guys gets almost nothing for this... insane life we live in people.

[@alexigandica7925]

money bro

[@orsoncart9441]

@@JonnieLahti No it's idiots that make gods of people who play sport. Nothing to do with politics at all.

[@deconteesawyer5758]

@@orsoncart9441 look at all the multi-million dollar per year contracts those Chinese soccer league players have. Nuttin ta do wit politics he says.

[@orsoncart9441]

@@deconteesawyer5758 If you don't make a god of a person in the first place then it is impossible for politics to come into it. I hope you understand now. LOL.

[@deconteesawyer5758]

@@orsoncart9441 No. Your attribution of those extraordinary paychecks to religion is ludicrous. It is all about the capitalist buck to be made. What you refer to as "making a god" is just a little old fashioned capitalist marketing hype. Nothing is more political than money. Edit: If you want a reality check here, go back and read your original comment. "make gods of people who play sport". Your thinking has been so warped that you do not know the meaning of "sport" nor "play". OK, I will educate you. Sport is something done for the fun. Play is for fun. As soon as a dollar changes hands, it is no longer a sport, it is a job, a livelihood and not engaged in for the fun of it.

[@PRR5406]

Very dangerous work, in countries where life is cheap for employers. Besides falling or being crushed to death, the toxic chemicals held in the tanks, the fuel spilled onto the sea, the asbestos in the dust. People die young, just they can say they could afford to live.

[@fletcherjarvis]

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

[@cmel0]

that's so beautiful at the same time sad, but such an art

[@AKhellbindeR]

one of the coolest vids ive seen in a while

[@3dvorator]

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

[@ty3165]

this is an amazing video i must say

[@hotdawg9840]

Thank you for your hard work. Your employers should show YOU more appreciation

[@hammadthegreat]

very nice video, thanks

[@engineerfireengine]

Very nice film.

[@rocafonda2009]

fantastc video, thanks for it !!!

[@83cyber]

Good work !! very nice video.

[@revol148]

@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.

[@Pierreboro]

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

[@mogliashu]

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.

[@Dorothyinstead]

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.

[@ironfalcon100]

The Pakistani ship breaker workers do their job with such cool efficiency!

[@AJTarnas]

Anyone know what their torch setup is? Oxygen and propane? All I can see is the torch and really long hoses.

[@ninja2kernow]

great video ,great tune ,great.

[@Filmcollectief]

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

[@64tbolt64]

so im still puzled. Why do they break a ship that doesnt look all that bad? why not keep it and in all these vids they cut off the front a nd back but what are they gonna use the metal for? Building houses?

[@danmackellar]

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

[@OrinBoborin]

What have you done to it's music? Why would you do that to a nice video like this?

[@NotABadassAnymore]

nice video! thanks for sharing!

[@mrRhwalden]

Very well done video.

[@froggleggers1805]

The video has no class.

[@WindowsBreakerG4]

Looks a lot safer actually, they had 2 way radios, goggles, and welding gloves

[@Canada20]

@ajmotnt It is pure Oxygen and Acetylene gas torch. Flame burn at 3500°C. Propane/Oxygen flame burn at 2500 °C.

[@noorijanze]

I Have been to this place have heart alot but this has turn me on to work there ....

[@warpedcomedy]

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

[@FulhamboyH]

Sad that workers are still in these conditions

[@Gonken88]

Bet you complain a lot when you buy cheap clothes or fill up your car.

[@sarrisification]

one of the most touch and dangerous jobs I've ever seen...

[@ragazzi25]

unreal conditions they deal with daily...you don't live to get old in these shipyards!!!

[@bobbycowper2915]

sunshine, great working condition.

[@ThunderAppeal]

Video is awesome, an interesting and well suited choice of music. Very well edited. Well done. Fuck the haters.

[@MyMIXmedia]

how much gas would they need to decompose this ship.

[@figgles]

Great track for a great video.

[@jonathanpeden9930]

Superb video.

[@unwertaker1128]

Good job.good like a movie of hollywood

[@Sailingnations]

Looks like this was a great trip!

[@achrin6234]

Good Job 🖤

[@Thegamer5150]

wish there were some rms Olympic vids they had video camera's back then + i think that when the melted the used it to make the 1st queen Mary or to support the war effort

[@azzamatdardhk8643]

What kind of music have you used in this movie. Please change music. This is not a dance party. They are just working. I want to dance after watching your video. hahaha

[@Chubachus]

looks a lil environmentally safer and safer for workers than in alang

[@shoaibsharif1]

nice video good job

[@nmgncross]

nice video!

[@64tbolt64]

sorry didnt think comment thru about houses part lol but someone message me why they tear down these ships instead of fix them???

[@coyoteshark]

Very OSHA compliant most had goggles funny when the guy ran in the end

[@tpvalley]

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

[@Ghstwn]

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

[@krasuke]

Is This Oxy Or Broco?

[@Ms9man]

keep it up man. good job.

[@ortidortidpipi]

great video ,interesting

[@conformism1]

I can relate to their suffering, at least a tiny bit, by listening to this music But camera is brilliant!

[@figgles]

Song title is Eternity by DJ Tiesto.

[@luvpump1]

interesting clip, good tune too

[@aaronsummers100]

Couldn't agree more. Had to mute the sound.

[@Filmcollectief]

@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...

[@raymondrayban]

AWESOME VID

[@AlanHamilton1]

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.

[@kenmtb]

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

[@66balajee]

Superb music !

[@DocPhotop]

No hardhats, no steel toe boots, no protective clothing. You couldn't get away with that anywhere else outside this part of world.

[@sosaix3545]

Seeing all the cutting going on, you have to admire/fear for those people who run into the shallow water to help when a ship first is beached, knowing there are likely hundreds if not thousands of pieces of sharp, rusted metal from previous breakings that could injure them severely at any time. This would be much better done in a drydock environment, obviously.

[@TheClougherna]

Nice film grain

[@jradetzky]

quite impressive

[@mr_e7682]

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

[@robleary3353]

Bonkers!. Hats off to the poor bloody workers there!.

[@cosworth89]

Kinda strange that they dont fall over to a side?

[@harryfaber]

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

[@DunkelStern]

what kind of ship is on 7:00?

[@keldsor]

Yeah, and one in Texas nearby Port Isabel on the shores of a 30km long chanal - so near the border to Mexico that you can blame them for it !

[@Gonken88]

This was used by our lector in a university course on workplace safety 😄

[@86dubzz]

Can I come help

[@sublime80]

thanx for the vid!

[@jordotech_tube]

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

[@velzevoulhs]

how many people die every year?

[@andriesscheper2022]

Horrific music! Thumbs down!

[@Borisslavosk]

Amazing : ) (at least, they have Google/glove)

[@azimuth361]

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

[@nickadz5490]

Imagine going swimming in that water full of that waste

[@kgc20goober]

the music fits this video perfectly.

[@imautuber]

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.

[@Mandamonster89]

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