REEF

After a liquid lunch it was time to visit REEF.

"Artist Simon Faithfull’s commission, REEF, began in August 2014 off the Dorset coast, where a boat made a last voyage out to sea and was sunk to become an artificial reef – serving as an underwater sculpture and a lasting legacy for marine conservation and biodiversity.

Five cameras were mounted on the boat and transmitted live to the world as the boat sank and then remained transmitting for the next 6 days from the seabed – capturing the beginning of a slow process of metamorphosis from defunct vessel to artificial reef.

“The camera is fascinating to me as a counterpoint to the subjective act of seeing – an external eye. A more reliable, objective, non-human recording device.” says Simon Faithfull."