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If you follow any cruise message
boards or forums, you are bound
to see someone asking if they can
bury or spread their deceased
loved one’s ashes at sea while they
are on their cruise. One of the
best ways to arrange a cremation
is through Neptune Society.
The simplified answer to this question is
yes. Most cruise lines will allow you to
bring the ashes on board and will even
block off an area at the back of the ship,
for a short time, in order to allow you and
your family time to prepare and to say a
few words and then spread the ashes out
over the sea.
Different cruise lines may have different
ways of setting up a burial at sea, but
most are very similar with the requirements
for this to take place. If your loved
one was someone who loved being at sea,
then this could be the perfect place to bury
them. Some cruise lines even give you a
keepsake map or document with the exact
location of where you spread the ashes,
marked on it, including latitude and longitude,
that you can take home with you and
frame or place in a scrapbook.
You will need to check with your chosen
cruise in advance, to make sure they
allow it. Once you have your loved one’s
ashes and are ready to book your cruise,
call the cruise line and make sure a burial
Can you still bury
a person at sea?
at sea can take place. Most cruise lines do
allow this, but it’s better to check first. It is
required that you have to be at least twelve
nautical miles from land and from any restricted
areas before the ceremony and
burial at sea can take place. Once you are
on board, go to guest services where Guest
Services Officers and the Environmental
& Occupational Safety Officer will coordinate
the burial at sea.
Once everything is finalized, you will
be notified of the time and date for your
service to take place. On most lines, when
the time arrives, you will be escorted to
the appointed area by an officer or security
guard. The area will be cordoned off in order
to allow the family the privacy for the
ceremony and time for the burial at sea to
take place. You may toss flowers overboard
along with the ashes, but they must be real
flowers and should be ordered from the
cruise line in advance. You will not be allowed
balloons or anything plastic or that
could harm the sea and the sea life.
RCCL moves from
FL to Miami
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line is set to build a $100 million
PortMiami terminal with a 400 meter long berth to accommodate
the cruise lines giant’s mega passenger ships.
Caribbean’s 6,000 passenger Oasis of the Seas and Allure
of the Seas are currently based at Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades.
The plans which were revealed detail a facility that will
be called Terminal A and would be operational in 2018.
Royal Caribbean’s contract at Port Everglades expires in
2018.
“Its not that we are leaving Port Everglades,” Adam Goldenstein,
RCL’s chief operating officer told county commissioners
Wednesday. “But the majority of our business will shift here to
PortMiami for the foreseeable future.”
Miami-Dade Commissioners will vote on the agreement with
Royal Caribbean that could last as long as 60 years.
Royal Caribbean is headquartered in Miami. The investment
in Terminal A is predicted to double Royal Caribbean’s
passenger volume to an estimated 1.5 million a year. The Port-
Miami would be paid $9.5 million in rent by the cruise ship
giant.
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