Ship breakers in Google Earth
by Timothy Whitehead on Jun.04, 2015, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
We were recently watching a couple of documentaries on the ship breaking industry and we thought it would be interesting to see what they look like from above in Google Earth.
The documentaries are available on YouTube and are:
“Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything” by National Geographic
“The Wire Nest…life In Mumbai’s Shipbreaking Yards” by Vega Productions
So we looked around the world and found a number of ship breaking yards clearly visible in Google Earth. To see the ones we found, download this KML file.
The most interesting site we found is a beach near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Because Chittagong has a lot of satellite imagery available in ‘historical imagery’ and one end of the ship breaking yards is within the Chittagong imagery, we can actually watch a ship as it is broken up!
Ship being broken up – October to December 2014.
For some great photography of ship breaking yards see this article.
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