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W-PHOTO 1. A shipbreaking worker using a torch to cut parts from a ship in Brownsville, Texas
W-PHOTO 2. "A worker examines the viscosity of sludge he found in ship's hold" at a shipbreaking yard in Brownsville, Texas.
W-PHOTO 3. "Workers cut up metal parts taken from ships" at a shipbreaking yard in Brownsville, Texas.
W-PHOTO 4. Worker using a cutting torch at a shipbreaking yard in Brownsville, Texas.
W-PHOTO 5. Workers in a vessel at Bay Bridge Enterprises in Chesapeake, Virginia on the Elizabeth River.
W-PHOTOS 6a and 6b. Remediation technician and ground rigger at International Shipbreaking Limited in Brownsville, Texas.
W-PHOTO 7. "Workers cut away sections of the hull of a ship for scrap metal" in Brownsville, Texas.
Photograph by Chris Tyree in 21 March 2005 article by Scott Harper in the Virginian-Pilot (28); this photowas also in the slide show accompanying the article but that slide show was no longer available on 8 March 2006 (28); however, this photo and part of the slide show is at http://navy.memorieshop.com/Brownsville/Slides-1.html. Note that a cutting torch can start a fire that can be a safety hazard as well as resulting in large volumes of water being used to put out the fire that can create contaminated bilgewater that could only be contained and treated in a drydock.
The caption for this photo:
"A cutter for International Shipbreakers torches steel cut from a ship at the Brownsville, Texas, yard in preparation for the arrival of a ship from the James River Reserve Fleet that will be scrapped at the yard."
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Photograph by Chris Tyree with caption in a slide show that accompanied the online version of the 21 March 2005 article by Scott Harper in the Virginian-Pilot; the slide show was no longer available on 8 March 2006 (28), but part of the slide show that did not include this photo is at http://navy.memorieshop.com/Brownsville/Slides-1.html. Note that the worker's white coat and hard hat are partially covered in sludge that appears consistent in appearance to heavy bunker fuel that is onboard some MARAD ships when they arrive at a shipbreaking site.
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Photograph by Chris Tyree with caption in a slide show that accompanied the online version of the 21 March 2005 article by Scott Harper in the Virginian-Pilot; the slide show was no longer available on 8 March 2006 (28), but part of the slide show that did not include this photo is at http://navy.memorieshop.com/Brownsville/Slides-1.html. Note that a cutting torch can start a fire that can be a safety hazard as well as resulting in large volumes of water being used to put out the fire that can create contaminated bilgewater that could only be contained and treated in a drydock.
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Photograph by Perry Thorsvik in 7 December 1997 article by Will Englund and Gary Cohn in a Pulitzer winning article in the Baltimore Sun (33). Also see 33 and 34 for other photos about shipbreaking as part of the Baltimore Sun series. Note that a cutting torch can start a fire that can be a safety hazard as well as resulting in large volumes of water being used to put out the fire that can create contaminated bilgewater that could only be contained and treated in a drydock.
The caption for this photo:
"Cutting steel: Cutting torches roar aboard the USS Iwo Jima at International Shipbreaking Ltd. in Brownsville, Texas, where two men were killed within a year. The men often work in darkness and suffocating heat as they cut steel for scrap."
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Photograph in 14 Dec. 2005 article by the Virginian-Pilot's Scott Harper (67). The caption is:
"Bay Bridge Enterprises in Chesapeake strips obsolete ships of harmful waste fuels and oils, lead, asbestos and PCBs in their wiring. It's a dirty business, but the state says the company has never been cited for violating a clean-water rule."
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