What sort of shovel can you use to bury someone at sea?

Question

What sort of shovel can you use to bury someone at sea?

Answer 1

Actually, it's more about the kind of coffin than the kind of shovel, since you can't dig a hole in the water.  You need a special weighted coffin that won't float--you don't want grandpa to float along and crash into a freighter.  

Do you realize that no one is going to release a body to you?  Every city/county has regulations about how decendents are handled:  they are transferred to funeral homes, crematories, etc. but no one is going to give you a dead body to go bury wherever you want.  And I'm sure grandpa is leaving you millions in his will, so you really want the death certificate from the county.  

You can have a lovely ocean ceremony with ashes--have you thought about doing that?  Some funeral homes will release "cremains" to the family.  Sunset ocean ceremonies are popular here in San Diego, but even then there's paperwork.  

The Navy also does burial at sea in very special circumstances.    

Answer 2

Lol, I don't want to over-generalize but your question may be the best thing I've ever read.

Answer 3

uh....lol.

I hoping that their last wish was to be 'buried' at sea.  I'm thinking it would probably pretty easy.  

Answer 4

If you're buried at sea, it's a bit difficult for relations to visit the grave!

Answer 5

You wouldn't.  You would have to use a specially weighted coffin with holes drilled in it so that it would sink straight to the sea bed.

Sea burials aren't encouraged in the UK and you do have to obtain a special licence to carry one out.

Answer 6

A sea shovel.

And Gala:  In Missouri they do release bodies to the next of kin if requested but there is some paperwork.

Answer 7

Just board a plane and have it crash in the sea.  Take out the middle man.

Answer 8

You sad person.

Answer 9

a bucket and spade , you can then catch crabs  

Answer 10

You don't need one you just let the coffin slide into the water. Making sure you are outside the 3 mile limit.

Answer 11

An underwater shovel, they've been tested to a depth of 25 metres so hopefully that will be enough for what you want to do.

Answer 12

Just a standard garden shovel.  If it seems like the hole just keeps filling in, it means you need to shovel faster.

Good luck!

Answer 13

Sir Cloudesly Shovel!

Answer 14

you are a very sick individual :)

Answer 15

A shovel type anchor to hold the coffin at the bottom.

Answer 16

Thinking of murdering someone eh? Burial at sea is forbidden, according to master Gala!

You'll need one of those retractable shovels they give in the army to soldiers... you know... they ones that fold in half and go in the backpack later! Why do I say this? well because you're obviously thinking of murdering someone aren't ya!?

You wanna hide the small shovel in your backpack, ask the mysterious person to take a look at the sunset (or moon, whatever it is there) and while they're looking away...

do ur thing with the shovel

and shove it back in the back pack.

(try and read these last two lines over and over quickly)

Answer 17

lmao great question but even better answers.  I particularly like Gala's. By the way I am so sorry for your loss.