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The Shipbreakers | 60 Minutes Archive

2025-02-11 News & Politics
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In 2006, Bob Simon traveled to Bangladesh, where thousands of low-paid workers — including children — were dismantling old ships for parts. Simon discovered appalling working conditions and toxic waste polluting the beaches "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@qbconnect2883 2025-02-11

These ultra rich men can afford to buy a salvage ship for $14 million, so what would it hurt them to provide the workers with some cheap sleeping mats and proper shoes. Greed is one of the most shameful things in humanity 😢

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@MasterKenfucius 2025-02-11

Funny how it went from "No children work at my yard" to "Well, they have no choice". This guy knows exactly what is going on there. He just doesn't care and is probably bribing everybody and their cousin to leave him alone.

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@obazas 2025-02-11

That’s a job AI can’t replace in the next 100 years.

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@johncholmes643 2025-02-12

Where people are cheaper than tools and equipment

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@MAC06141 2025-02-11

Peace …Happiness….Prosperity…..maybe for him…..not the workers…..

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@mikekennedy5470 2025-02-11

Nothing like going to work with a sleeping shirt & a cheap pair of flip flops

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@azmrblack 2025-02-13

"The men here are dwarfed by the vessels" - reminds me exactly of ants tearing apart a big bug or meal and carrying little pieces back.

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@tommyfenelon2993 2025-02-11

4:50 The original "I am the captain now"

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@MedicalCattle 2025-02-12

I worked in a shop 10 miles from Detroit, it was automated production grinding for automotive transmission valves, the shop owner saw great opportunity hiring Bangladesh folks. They stay working night and day for 40+ years and bring their family in too These folks make your American vehicles, most Americans quit in a year time in the grinding trade: primitive and dangerous

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@coldshot1723 2025-02-19

In the 80's, I was stationed aboard the USS Tuscaloosa LST-1187. We visited Chittagong, Bangladesh in 1984. We were the first US Navy ship to visit since it became a country in 1971. You have not seen poverty until you have seen Bangladesh. I'm not exaggerating. We had sailors from the Bangladesh Navy showing us around. We passed a man sitting at the side of the road with another man lying beside him. The man lying down was dressed up and had a tin cup on his chest. We were told that the man had died and the family could not afford to bury him. The tin cup was for donations to pay for a funeral. Very depressing place.

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