Can friends and family members accompany the Natures Passage staff on an interment voyage?
Yes. But there are significant conditions to consider! Spreading remains 3 miles at sea. For a reasonable charter fee, up to a total of six passengers may accompany the Nature’s Passage staff to sea. Casketed burials take place at ocean depths over 600 feet which means a round trip journey of 170 miles or so off Long Island ‘s southern shore. Depending on the vessel chartered by Nature’s Passage to perform this mission and the weather, it is a trip of between 10 to 24 hours on the open ocean. For the land-lubber this is a daunting journey that often produces severe bouts of sea sickness. That said; it’s your call. If you wish to pay the charter fee and can physically perform duties of a deck-hand, if seaborne situations demand, welcome aboard.
