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DISMANTLING
..........................................................THE GHOST FLEET The work is dangerous, the materials are toxic and the pay is meager. but the labor force of Brownsville, Texas, is happy to have the huge job of dismantling The Ghost Fleet At right is a worker at All Star Metals wiping the day's sweat from his head after cutting apart a Ghost Fleet ship. Photos by Chris Tyree of the THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT from: hamptonroads.com |
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 A cutter for International Shipbreakers torches steel cut from a ship at the Brownsville yard in preparation for the arrival of a ship from the James River Reserve Fleet that will be scrapped. |
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 All that's left
of a Ghost Fleet ship is anchors and a pile of Steel
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 Red Texas dirt
clings to lines holding the rusting ship Donner
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 Workers cut
away sections of the hull of a ship for scrap metal
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 The Port of
Brownsville as seen from the ghost ship ESCO Marine
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