A nice Camps Bay Beach image:
Nouadhibou ship graveyard shore – glove composition
Image by 10b travelling / Carsten ten Brink
Nouadhibou is Mauritania’s second-largest city and its main port. It is also a border town – the territory of Western Sahara (the former Spanish Sahara) is adjacent. The bay formed by the Ras Nouadhibou (aka Cabo Blanco or Cap Blanc) headland / peninsula was of critical importance, including for the fishing industry, the waters apparently much calmer than the open Atlantic Ocean. In the later years of the 20th century, Nouadhibou became known as the world’s largest ship graveyard as vessel after vessel was abanonded here. Residents of Nouadhibou (metalworkers, electricians, plumbers etc) took advanatge of the salvage opportunities; apparently fish, birds and other wildlife used the wrecks as their own ecosystems.
However, just like the ship graveyard on the Aral see in Cenrral Asia (which I camped at in 2015), the Nouadhibou graveyard has seen change – the largest vessels are gone, I understand to the scrappers, a result of rising metals prices. Some boats remain and the shore was a fascinating place for me, with discarded objects, beached flotasam or jetsam. Some of the area is now off-limits because of a new industrial site on the shore and it is possible that in the next years the last rusty vessels and/or last segments of accessible shore line disappear.
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