About Me

My photo
Alaska, United States
I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

May 25, 2014

Hashima

Hashima, also known by the locals as Gunkanjima.  Gunkan meaning Battleship and Jima is Island in Japanese.  Hashima was made famous as the lair of the villian in the James Bond movie SkyFall.

Hashima lies about 4.5km west of the Nagasaki peninsula.  It is a tiny island with a seabed coalmine.  After the mine was closed in January 1974, it was left uninhabited for many years.  In January 2009, they opened it again for tourism.  You can read more about the island's history on the internet.  Below are some of the pictures we took.
The remains of the old dock

front of the main office building where the miners gather before work

this is a sort of scupper for the sea water to drain during a typhoon

remains of the swimming pool

apartment block for the bosses

view of the island

apartments for the workers and their family

another view of the island
supports for the conveyor belt bringing the coal to the ships

the water tower, next to where they have now installed a lighthouse

Posted by SY Sari Timur at 04:44

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)