New Graveyard Reef Announced
Loved one’s ashes become permanent artificial reefs.
Eternal Reefs Inc. is the only U.S. company offering “underwater green
burial at sea in an artificial reef.” That’s where eco-friendly concrete
is mixed with cremated remains of loved ones, and deployed offshore in a
fish-friendly pattern. And, they’ve announced their latest reef site for
interested fishermen.
The new and fifth offshore site (others now exist off Sarasota, Tampa
Bay, Pensacola and Fort Lauderdale) will be along the Palm Coast of
Flagler County, between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Each individual
memorial reef comes with an attached bronze plaque, and two memorial
certificates. The smallest reef is two feet high and weighs 400 pounds.
The largest weighs two tons.
Similar reefs already rest off North and South Carolina, Maryland, New
Jersey and Virginia and Texas. With the fast-growing popularity of
cremation in America, now at 27 percent and expected to reach 40 percent
by 2010, look for a great many more reefs offshore.
Talk on the dock says that if Florida book author Carl Hiassen ignores
this issue in his next book, it will be a miracle.
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