The Myanmar 'water brothers' salvaging shipwrecks on the tide

Yangon, Myanmar (AFP) April 25, 2024

Diving into the darkness of the Yangon River, Than Nyunt starts another murky sortie in his months-long mission to salvage a sunken ship using the power of the moon. His target is a 53-metre (174-foot) long cargo vessel resting on the silty riverbed in Myanmar's commercial hub, whose steel carcass will fetch a tidy sum as scrap - if he can get it to shore. A hose running from his mask u