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Sand diver, Cameroon, 2017. These men dived for brickies sand in the fast moving Douala Estuary in eastern Cameroon. The work was brutal and dangerous and the miners dived around the low tide. Deaths occurred periodically and some of the hazards included sand being ingested into ears and major orifices, the benz, being knocked out on the hull of the boat when surfacing too quickly in the wrong place and then drowning on being washed away by the tide, venomous snakes coming down on floating weed mates, stingrays, etc. (Photo by Hugh Brown/South West News Service)
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