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[edit] How can ship breaking be economically unattractive ?

How can ship breaking be economically unattractive ? Having seen that even in developing countries, ships that lay on the bottom of the sea are sometimes hauled up and repaired (see the endeavor from the Belgica genootschap to recover the sunk Belgica ^[1], I wonder how this is not so with even less degraded ships. Offcourse the man hours of work need to be imbedded into the price, yet as it is a ship it is possible to just ship it to low-labour countries as China, India, ... so that can't be a problem. In addition, ships that are merely 'decommissioned" are not necessairily so degraded so that they can no longer float, so they can (even without repairs) still be used as a mobile platforms (e.g. for abortion clinics, hospital ships, living boats, ...). Perhaps it is possible to include this information into the article. KVDP (talk) 17:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stranded ships in developing world usable for shipwrecking

It should be noted in the article that hundreds of stranded ships lay at the shores in Africa (eg Angola, Mauritania, Somalia, ...). These are well usuble for shipwrecking and salvaging materials. Also, as most of these ships are still sturdy (made of iron) and fairly good, they may be fixed up and used again for sailing (dough decommissioned and or confiscated (pirate ^[2] confiscated ships or regular ships) and military naval vessels may be even better and may be low-cost aswell; some of them are now merely sunk for making artificial reefs). Look to the 'Uknown Africa-Angola' documentairy and pictures from the Aral Sea for references.

Include in the article, as this is vital information for the green movements and appropriate technology organisations. Thanks. KVDP (talk) 17:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)