The most Dangerous
job in the world

There are few more dirty and dangerous jobs than scrapping the world's big ships. Explosions and fires are daily killing scores of very badly equipped workers each year in South Asia. The beaches in these countries are so littered with rusting vessels, staining the sands with oils and other chemicals that it is easy to see the impact from a normal google earth ariel view. (Highly recommended). Companies are under growing pressure to protect workers and the environment mainly resulting from efforts from individuals and a string of recent court cases that have become hard for maritime organisations to be seen to be ignoring. Governments are meeting in Hong Kong to consider this whole problem and to deal with it to mutual benefit. Environmentalists and human rights organizations argue the convention falls far short of what is needed to reform the much-maligned industry. .. Continued