The Myanmar 'water brothers' salvaging shipwrecks on the tide

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.