Sink Without Trace

Sink Without Trace presented work by eighteen artists on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. As part of the exhibition, Forensic Oceanography presented the The Left-to-die boat case, in which 63 migrants died whilst drifting in a boat for 14 days in a NATO surveillance area.

In their report on the ‘Left-to-die boat’—presented in video form at the exhibition—the Goldsmiths-based research collective Forensic Oceanography (FO) combine information derived from official sources and sophisticated geo-spatial technologies (the view from above) with the testimony of survivors (the view from below), to prove that the latter’s fate was not the result of fortuitous oversight but of callous non-assistance by several actors (national, supra-national and commercial).

– IRR, 4 July 2019