How 60,000 Metric Tons of Salt Are Harvested from One of the World’s Saltiest Lakes — Handmade
How 60,000 Metric Tons of Salt Are Harvested from One of the World’s Saltiest Lakes — Handmade
At Senegal’s Lake Retba a.k.a. “Pink Lake,” harvesters wade into the waters of one of the world’s saltiest lakes — even saltier than the Dead Sea — to collect 60,000 metric tons of salt per year.
Credits:
Producers: Carla Francescutti, Pelin Keskin
Director/Field Producer: Abdoulaye Ndao
Camera: Malick Sy, Sidy Ndour
Interpreters: Thierno Seck, Abdoulaye Ndao
Story Consultant: Yvonne Maxwell
Editor: Carla Francescutti
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Development Producer: McGraw Wolfman
Coordinating Producer: Stefania Orrù
Audience Engagement: Daniel Geneen, Terri Ciccone
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If you’ ve seen Gladiator, the movie, you can understand how these guys were sought after during the Roman Empire.
Eating popcorn and wondering if the salt on it some how came from here lol
that lake must be salty from the combined salt of cs:go players
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In addition to salt harvesting, Seydou Touré is also a professional wrestler in Senegal
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This man 🔥🔥🤲🏾
Our latest quest is Paiute salt
His skin is marvelous
FAKE NEWS! The lake is called pink. The salt is clearly white and the thumbnail was doctored. Reported and disliked. Pathetic.
I see y’all simping y’all ain’t slick
What is with these commercials saying black is beauty? They have black skin black hair and brown eyes Europeans have black brown blonde and red hair blue brown green eyes and multi skin tones Europeans need no diversity unsay open borders for Israel
HAHA they found the place were csgo was developed
That’s a lot of income for the people if government is not corrupt.
200 CFA is the equivalent to $0.36 USD.
Why is shitty chemical salt more expensive in the U.S. than this????
He never set foot in any gym all his life
Imagine how big Jay Cutler would be if he worked at the salt lake
Wow.
I need to go across the world for my husband
This was so interesting. I clicked thinking I’d watch a minute or two but was totally captivated by the full
Clip. I live in Utah, and I grew up in a small town near the Great Salt Lake. It stinks, and I’d home to thing little brine shrimp. We also have Salt Flats often featured in movies about teaching out sci fi. If you saw the movie, Independence Day, the scene where Will Smith drags the dead alien back to his military base was filmed out on the salt flats.
I lived on a dead end street. If you drive down to where the road became dirt, then turned left, there was a salt Marsh that was a bird sanctuary, and where the biggest mosquitos you’ve ever seen are bred. We booked they flew with a knife, a girl and a napkin tired under their chin. As kids, the place was spooky. Quiet, barren, no trees for shade and if you wandered off the path, a puncture in your bike tire was the least that might go wrong.
This mans body is insane, his work is honestly a form of art few of us could do, they deserve more people to acknowledge them like this
Sad world we live in
I would like to say to him thank you for all the hard work he does
I do like this chanell and l’m very kin on the English too you cannot start an English sentence using Even 😄
You have extremely good looking men, they need to take much care of their health and skin.
So he clean himself right up of the salt and step on it
And I eat it
This salt has formed from Reyand’s tears.
I didn’t make it past the butter scene
Now I have a lot more respect for the $8 bottle of pink salt I bought at the store and put in my salt grinder because it looks fancy
And I learned something new today.
Lol I am glad the comments section did not disappoint 😌
Think of all the sweat that goes into this salt production. Not to mention the bottom of the boots walking in it. Yum
Oh yea, not from the Himalayas
is he married? Hot dude!
Is this salt free of micro plastic particles?
Just a scratch on your arm will kill you if you go into this lake
So this is where the league of legends servers are hosted
I hope they make a lot of money. They deserve it with all their hard work.
I’d love to know where to get this. With the right marketing they could do well in the west & Asia.
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salt here costs almost 2189.77 CFA a kilo
Are they using different languages? The guy in white shirt language uses many French words with accent I can understand. La femme qui faisait le riz a dit "lac rose": pink lake.
Good people right there ..
Us me included should count our cozy comfortable blessings every day that we, me included don’t have to work like these folk do.
Most of us me included could not last an hour with these men and women.
I would be crying take me back my spoiled USA.
Thank you GOD .
Beautiful black skin! King!
Women: *carries 30 pounds of salt on her head*
Every bodybuilder ever: “HOW TF DID YOU DO THAT???!”
Tough way to make a living to be sure ! Most salt mines mine 50 + tons in a day !