" in.fondo.al.mar (under the sea) is a journalistic project which uses web-based tools to construct a shared memory on the "toxic ships" scandal and to initiate a participatory investigation on the suspected sinking and dumping of tons of radioactive and chemical waste in the Mediterranean Sea.
The website publishes for the first time all the official data on the incidents obtained through an extensive research conducted on the Lloyd's Register of Shipping in London, alongside archival information gathered from press clippings, dossiers produced by environmental organisations, and specialist websites, in order to produce an open dataset on the case, to be freely downloaded by its users and employed for other projects.
Maps, time lines and other forms of info-visualization, provide the instruments to make sense of this mass of data and identify analogies in the locations and modalities of the incidents, in the declared cargoes and in the ports of arrival and departure of the suspected ships, thus providing a springboard for further investigations. "
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