Artificial Reefs Used as Living Memorials Artificial reefs have been around for decades. But, for the first time in Galveston, they are being used a living memorials. Eternal Reef offers the heavy concrete structures to families to personalize. Read More
BBC News
From the BBC: A new way to bury people at sea is becoming more popular in the US. Families use their loved one’s ashes to build an artificial reef which is then dropped into the sea as a new home for marine life. With so many natural fish habitats having been destroyed the organisers say […]
National Geographic
Eternal Reefs is helping to improve endangered coral reefs, thanks to people who want to “sleep with the fishes.”
NPR
At The End Of Life, Remains Become Reefs As a Chicago woman commits her husband to the sea, his ashes — mixed with concrete — begin a new existence as an artificial reef. It’s not a burial, it’s not a cremation. It’s a memorial reef ball. People come to Florida for all sorts of reasons. […]
Baltimore Sun
Final rest goes green in the bayThey traveled to Florida, where the reef balls are made, to mix the ashes of both parents into the concrete and decorate their memorials…Read More
‘Eternal Reefs’ To Help Bay Health
A green way to be buried is catching on in Maryland. Eternal reefs will be placed in the Chesapeake Bay that are made of concrete and the ashes of a loved one. Video provided by NBC News affiliate, WBAL TV Baltimore
