[VeniVidiVici]

The requirements sound like the result of good lobbying efforts by the funeral industry though.

I was thinking along those lines. Seems like a lot of work to dump a single body into ocean. I'm thinking it would be nothing but bones in less than a week. Wonder what they worry about?

[naturalman1975]

They worry about cases like this one - where because it (apparently) wasn’t done properly, all sorts of resources have been tied up dealing with it.

It can also cost ordinary people, not just the authorities - a fishing boat captain doesn’t appreciate having the entire catch condemned because a body floated into it because somebody else was careless.

[TigersEye]

Exactly. If properly weighted it would. But they want you to buy a $10k corrosion resistant casket and stainless steel chains that will last for decades down there.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bodies turn up after months at sea. The regulations sound like common sense to me. Think if millions of bodies were carelessly disposed of in this manner.