Bangladesh has what are called ship breaking yards (Gwin). When ships are scrapped in the developed world, the process is more tightly regulated and expensive, so most of the world's shipbreaking is done in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, where labor is cheap and supervision is minimal (Gwin) . The process begins after a breaker acquires a vessel from an international broker dealing with obsolete vessels (Gwin). A captain specializing in hauling large boats is hired to deliver them to the breaker's yard, generally a sliver of beach just a hundred meters wide (Gwin). Once the ship is mired in mud, its liquids are sucked out, including any residual diesel fuel, engine oil and firefighting chemicals, which are resold (Gwin). Subsequently the machinery and systems are dismantled (Gwin). Everything is removed and sold to salvage traders: from huge engines, batteries, generators and kilometers of copper cables to crew bunks, portholes, lifeboats and electronic dials on deck (Gwin). After the ship is reduced to a steel hull, crowds of workers from poorer parts of Bangladesh use acetylene torches to cut the carcass into pieces (Gwin). These are dragged off the beach by loader crews, then melted down and made into armor for use in construction (Gwin). The problem with doing this is the damage it can cause (Gwin). Some men have scars from work. Some had broken fingers and others were blind in one or both eyes (Gwin). While saving the metal from these ships is a good thing, it does so at the expense of the workers’