This Is Where Cruise Ships Go to Die. Meet the Man Saving Them. Peter Knego has gone to extremes salvaging at-risk history. He says it’s worth the gamble
The gangway was long gone, by then. There was just one way to enter the rust-etched, echoing hull that bobbed in the shallows off Alang, a small town on India’s Arabian Sea coast.
It is the world’s largest shipbreaking yard, where cruise ships go to die, where in January of 2015, a slim figure with cornflower-blue eyes watched the frayed strands of a rope ladder flick and twitch with the swell. It didn’t look too bad, he thought. He’d seen worse.
It took nerve for cruise ship historian Peter Knego to get even that far.
