Polystyrene Haven

_{"Polystyrene is used to build the most heterogeneous watercrafts." Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC; 1/50 sec at f/8, ISO 250 (photo by: author)}

This ruined house by Cienfuegos Bay, Cuba serves as a provisional berth for these polystyrene rafts (balsas de poliespuma in Spanish). The financial difficulties in Cuba forced many fishermen and hobbyists to obtain their own floating medium from different materials such as tires of trucks or jeeps and, as shown in the picture, polystyrene.

_{In his polystyrene raft this young man has access to fishing inaccessible to manual casting from the coast. (photo by: author)}

Thousands of Cubans have died or disappeared crossing Florida Strait in these rustic rafts to reach United States shores. The death toll is unknown.

_{These rafts are also very practical when fishing in reservoirs because underwater vegetation and mud make wading near impossible. (photo by: author)}

As a side note, the house in the picture appears to be constructed before the year 1959, and it seems it belonged to middle-class people, note the Solomonic column inside the house.

Thanks to @grecoloco for posting a photo of buildings in the process of disintegration that encouraged me to publish this very first photography of structures in ruins.