How a Disappearing Sea Became a Town’s Main Attraction
8/9/18
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from The New York Times,
8/9/18:
Paradoxically, the man-made disaster strangling the town has become its main attraction in recent years. Tourism is booming.
“A lot of people want to see an ecological crisis,” said Vadim Sokolov, the head of the Uzbek branch of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea.
Where waves once lapped at the harbor’s lighthouse, rusting trawlers now sit abandoned on the sandy seabed far below, like dinosaur bones bleaching in the sunshine.
A selfie from the ship cemetery has become a must-have for the Instagram crowd.
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