Oceangoing merchant ships are among the largest mobile structures built by human beings. Taking them apart is dirty, dangerous work. In this National Film Board of Canada production filmmaker Michael Kot takes viewers into the lives of the shipbreakers o f Alang, India, where one of the salvage workers dies on an ordinary day and one in four of the survivors contract cancer from the asbestos, PCBs and other toxic substances in the hulks - and all fear that somewhere else, someone else will do the job che aper. Letterboxed. Narrator David Suzuki. 1571251 Ontario Inc. Closed captioned.