Where do boat go when they die ? Sometimes they end up in vast ship graveyards , sometimes craggy , hazy places where ships have gather their doom , and sometimes spot where ships are deliberately entrust to rusting . There ’s a quiet dish to many of these graveyards and their resting inhabitants .
The port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania
More than 300 ship are rest in the world ’s largest ship graveyard . The practice of abandoning ships here start in the 1980s after the nation ’s fishing manufacture was nationalized .
( viaGeolocation / crodenas , Filippo Minelli / Flickr , j - b.d / Flickr – 1,2,Sebastián Losada / FlickrandCrazytopics )
Mo’ynoq (Muynak/Moynaq), Western Uzbekistan
The former sea port urban center haslots of rusting ships , abandoned since the 1980s due to the recession of the Aral Sea , which is now at least 95 miles ( 150 km ) away from the former seaport .
https://gizmodo.com/abandoned-ships-stranded-in-the-desert-5913594
( viaUnited Nations Development Programme / FlickrandMartijn Munneke / Flickr )
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
The sphere was name after the heavyweight and cachet bones that littered the shoring because of the whaling industry , but there are more than a thousand ships caught by sway and fog .
( via Wikimedia Commons , byAnagoria , Patrick Giraud , Bel AdoneandJoachim Huber / Flickr )
Staten Island Boat Graveyard or the Witte Marine Scrap Yard, NY
A dumping ground for disused and decommissioned ship in New York .
( viaBob Jagendorf / Flickr )
Military graveyard near Landévennec, France
The graveyard for ( primarily naval ) vessels is a crease on the Aulne River , used by the French Navy .
( viaVincent Maurin / Flickr – 1 – 2 )
Grytviken, South Georgia, South Atlantic
The colony was established in 1904 by a Norwegian sea skipper asa whaling stationfor his fishing company . It was closed in December 1966 , but the church service is still used occasionally for man and wife , and the whale ship are still in the harbour .
https://gizmodo.com/8-abandoned-antarctic-whaling-stations-and-bases-that-a-471066973
( viaWikimedia Commons , byLiam Quinn , Serge OuachéeandAah - Yeah / Flickr )
Gadani ship-breaking yard, Gadani, Pakistan
The humankind ’s third large ship break yard has a content of 125 ships of all sizes , let in supertankers . In the 2009 - 2010 fiscal year , 107 ships were on the yard .
During the seventies and eighties , the ship breaking industriousness was on top , and Gadani was the largest breaking yard in the worldly concern .
( viaMichael Foley / Flickr 1–2,DawnandNGO Shipbreaking Platform / photos by Tomás Halda , 2010 )
Bonus: Cemitério das Âncoras or The Anchor Graveyard, Tavira Island, Portugal
A portion of the beach is littered with hundreds of rust anchors .
( viaStartTheDayandRicardo Santos )
Double bonus: Japanese Midget Submarines, 1945-1947
“ At the end of World War II , Allied Occupation force-out observe century of dwarf U-boat build and build in Japan , let in big numbers of the “ Koryu ” type . Many of these boats were in mass groups at shipyards and naval bases . ”
( viaDepartment of the Navy / Naval Historical Center )
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