A monument in the village commemorates the men of Sandvík lost in the Skaðagrindin boat disaster of 1915, when a fishing crew was caught in a sudden storm. Fishing tragedies of this kind shaped the culture and consciousness of Faroese communities profoundly — the sea was a constant presence and a constant risk, and nearly every family had losses to mourn.
The memorial is simple, as these things tend to be in the Faroes — a stone, names, a date. It stands alongside the monument to the writer Martin Joensen, who grew up in this village and whose novels described the fishing life of the islands.