Sentence examples for sea burials from inspiring English sources

Sea burials.

All sea burials are reported to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Its managing director, John Lister, has been carrying out sea burials for 25 years and thinks he has presided over about 250 of them.

In 2002 there were 21 sea burials: last year there were only four, perhaps because the old salts who served in Second World War convoys, or have similar powerful attachments to the waves, have mostly passed on.

"It's almost like doing weddings, these wild requests; that's what funerals are turning into," said Mr. Hald, who did wedding charters on his houseboat before sea burials came into vogue.

There are three designated sea burial sites – marine graveyards, as it were – one off Tynemouth in Northumberland, one off Newhaven in East Sussex, and one three miles south of the Needles, the extreme westerly point of the Isle of Wight, and it is at this last site that the vast majority of sea burials take place.

Chapter titles include "Wrecks and Death" (subtitle: "A stitch through the nostrils") and "Sea Burial".

American officials stressed Monday that the sea burial followed Islamic custom.

As funerals go, the subway sea burial was more surreal than solemn.

On Chinese social media, the words "sea burial," too, were banned.

And then Saul was unexpectedly moved by the sea burial of Nazir and then, "That's weird.