On Bangka Island, Indonesia, hundreds of miners risk their lives daily to dig for tin on the ocean floor.
The miners make $13 a day, and they say the job is their best option for feeding their families.
Tin is used to make canned goods, paint, phones, and even fuel.
Indonesia is the world’s biggest exporter of raw tin, and most of it comes from the islands of Bangka and Belitung. But today, the land supply is almost gone, so miners have moved to the sea, risking their lives to extract the ore 65 feet underwater.
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