Contest #442 Ship breaking yard, Gadani, Pakistan

Although we’ve seen it spelled Gaddani in some sources, Gadani seems to be the consensus version. We’ve allowed for some place-name latitude as some of you clearly did it the old fashioned way by scanning up and down the coast. The site pictured is about 4 kilometers SSW of the actual town of Gadani, but we had to find an area with some ships actually being broken up. Ship breaking runs up and down the coast in this area for quite a distance. Gadani is the third largest ship breaking operation in the world. It is a nasty, dirty, and not particularly safe, line of work.

This is usually how ships get up onto the beach to start the process:

 

Video running down the coast at Gadani:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOABcWmm72Y

As you may have noticed, the cover shot for the video doesn’t appear in the video. So here is the full story of the Front Driver arriving at Gadani

 

Breaking up underway:

Many, many, pictures on Flickr if you search Gadani. Many of them may not be downloaded or linked, or more of them would be here.

Found before the hint:

  • Phil Ower
  • hhgygy
  • Felix Bossert
  • Eloy Cano
  • donaaronio
  • Junebug
  • Garfield
  • Paul Voestermans
  • Rob De Wolf
  • Ann K.
  • Lighthouse
  • Lelie
  • Robin
  • Doc Will
  • Steve Hoge
  • Chris Nason
  • RicardPG
  • Marisa Boraas
  • Jeff

And after the hint:

  • Noisette

Contest #442 Hint

Not all ships that have been on the great waters get a send-off as elegiac as this one. The full title of Mr. Turner’s painting of 1838 indicates the activity at hand in the quiz. 

Contest #441 – Sudokwon Landfill / Dream Park, Incheon, South Korea

Tucked along the Ara canal linking the Han River to the Yellow Sea, this was once a complex of landfills that made up a contender for the largest waste disposal facility in the world, both in size and daily intake.

Starting in the early 2000’s, the South Korean government made the decision to make better use of the land. They converted some of the landfills for scientific research into creating energy from trash, created gardens and ecological parks, and built a world-class golf course. They are reducing the intake in to the remaining main landfill, with plans to cover it with a large dome (for collecting the released greenhouse gasses) and continuing research on the best ways to create energy from the trash that comes in and the trash that is already there.

It basically went from this:

Before 1

Before 2

To this:

After 1

After 2

Those who found the gem in the trash heap included:

  • Felix Bossert
  • Garfield
  • Phil Ower
  • Lighthouse
  • hhgygy
  • Paul Voestermans
  • mehmet durmus
  • Eloy Cano
  • Steve Hoge
  • Luís Filipe Miguel
  • Ann K.
  • Lelie
  • rob de wolff
  • steven simmons
  • Junebug
  • joe9000

and those who had to wait until the renovations were done (after the hint):

  • Robin
  • Chris Nason