The charter boat captain should have known the rules or looked them up. I looked into having my ashes (when I die) put into a cement ring that they lower to a reef which they’re starting somewhere off the coast of NJ. The family thinks I am nuts. However I don’t trust them with my ashes. Sassy maybe as long as the top is welded shut. She didn’t want her grandmother’s urn put with my dad. She liked having her around which upset the brothers greatly. Seems they have a problem with death & she doesn’t. Thankfully.
Good point. The requirements sound like the result of good lobbying efforts by the funeral industry though.