David Chan, a veteran ship mechanic in Hong Kong, finds his career facing uncertainty due to the proposed Aberdeen marina project. He has maintained the trade since the 1960s, initially working on local fishing and cargo vessels.

David Chan* is among the few remaining ship machinery maintenance masters at the Po Chong Wan temporary industrial area in Hong Kong’s Aberdeen. Chan, in his seventies, entered the trade in the 1960s as an apprentice in Ap Lei Chau, an islet off Aberdeen, repairing propellers, gearboxes and other machinery on wooden fishing boats and cargo ships. At the time, the area was one of the city’s four major fishing villages. After years of hard work, he went solo and relocated to the Po Chong Wan site....