UXO salvage diver Piseth Dara (24) prepares to dive. Dara is taking part in a training programme devised by the USA 7th Engineer Dive Detachment off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
Marcel Durocher and Heang Sambo employees of Golden West Humanitarian Organisation board a boat ahead of a river survey on the Tonle Sap river. Using sonar, Marcel and Sambo are able to map the riverbed identifying sunken boats and potential UXO. The Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers move vast amounts of sediment, making the process of scanning the river beds difficult: what is identified one year can be covered by sediment the next and new sites can be revealed © Charles Fox
Employee working on a sand dredger flushes sand towards a huge pump which transports the sand from the dredger to fill in a nearby lake to create a piece of land for real estate development in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The dredgers regularly suck up small pieces of UXO from the Mekong riverbed. Some of the shell casings are kept for their scrap value but anything dangerous is thrown back in the water. © Charles Fox
A diver team carry their inflatable boat down the banks of the Tonle Sap river. © Charles Fox
The UXO salvage dive team handle an unexploded, 1,000 pound bomb found in a river in Kratie Province, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
UXO salvage diver Leng Channak (33) enters the Tonle Sap river at the location of a French barge thought to contain UXO. The barges were sunk by the Khmer Rouge and American military. © Charles Fox
Marcel Durocher and Heang Sambo employees of Golden West Humanitarian Organisation spend up to six hours a day on a boat when on a river survey. © Charles Fox
UXO salvage diver Lorn Sarath (25) sits underneath a mosquito net in the early hours of the morning at the divers barracks in Kampong Chhanang Province, Cambodia. The divers study English daily to improve their ability to work regionally and train globally. © Charles Fox
Members of the UXO salvage dive team take part in a mission brief in their dive shop in Kampong Chhanang, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
A plume of water shoots into the sky after liquid explosives are detonated underwater. The explosives were tested to see if they would be a viable solution to detonate UXO underwater. The test took place at the divers training centre in Kampong Chhanang Province, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
UXO salvage diver Leng Channak (33) takes part in the training programme devised by the USA 7th Engineer Dive Detachment off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The divers train to identify UXO (inert for training purposes) wearing "black-out" masks to simulate the zero visibility they will encounter in the rivers and lakes of Cambodia. © Charles Fox
An inert piece of ordinance is attached to an inflatable lift bag. This technique will be used to move and remove large pieces of ordinance which cannot be safely detonated in situ. © Charles Fox
Members of the UXO salvage dive team practice removing a stricken diver from the water in a training exercise off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
Heang Sambo (38) collapses during an intense training session on the beach at Sihanoukville, Cambodia. At the beginning of the training, many of the now-divers could not swim. Sambo is not a full-time member of the team but trained to dive with the team. anyways Sambo works as a detection specialist and has worked all over the world . © Charles Fox
The UXO salvage diver team during training on the island of Koh Rong, off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The group line up ahead of a sea swim. All the divers were previously de-miners with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre and were selected by the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation from a group of over forty applicants. © Charles Fox
Mike Nisi and Sok Chenda maneuver a boat as they drag an inflatable lift bag which is attached to a MK82 bomb. The divers attached the bag to the bomb and raised it to the surface and dragged it to shore. The bomb was dropped on Cambodia between 1965 - 1973. © Charles Fox
Team Leader Sok Chenda carries a 105mm round from the banks of the Tonle Sap River. The team were informed of the round whilst conducting reconnaissance in the area. © Charles Fox
Detonation of UXO at the "Elephant Range" in Kampong Chhanang Province, Cambodia. © Charles Fox
Te Denar (10) at home, holding a photograph of himself. He sustained his injuries when the fuse of a mortar round ignited whilst he was holding it. Denar found the fuse in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia while out playing with his cousins. His brother took the photograph to show to NGOs in the hope that one of them could help in any way—but he did not know how to go about asking. © Charles Fox
Kong (21) sits next to his mother Chiv Sokly (49) at their home in Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia. Kong holds the photograph of his father, Lim Tong, who was mortally wounded in 2000 at the age of 33 by UXO. It exploded when he threw a piece of metal that he and two other fishermen "caught" in their nets back into the river—which then hit a mortar round hidden under the surface. One of the other fishermen was killed instantly, and the third sustained shrapnel injuries and died in 2014. © Charles Fox
Lim Sokphiam (54) holds a photograph of her husband, Chea Kea, who died in May 2014 at the age of 56. Kea sustained shrapnel injuries in 2000 when an underwater mortar round exploded killing two other people. Lim says, “we knew there was a military base near the market (next to the river) but we never knew about explosives in the water”. © Charles Fox