page_title: Burial at sea
section_title: Wartime burial at sea
hierarchical_section_title: Burial at sea / Wartime burial at sea
caption_attribution_description: English: The firing detail aboard the guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) fires three volleys as part of a burial-at-sea for World War II Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Eugene Stanley Morgan, one of the 316 survivors of the sinking of the World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA 35) in the Philippine Sea July 30, 1945. Morgan died June 18, 2008.
context_page_description: Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed by navies, and is done by private citizens in many countries.
  Burial-at-sea services are conducted at many different locations and with many different customs, either by ship or by aircraft. Usually, either the captain of the ship or aircraft or a religious representative performs the ceremony.
  The ceremony may include burial in a casket, burial sewn in sailcloth, burial in an urn, or scattering of the cremated remains from a ship. Burial at sea by aircraft is usually done only with cremated remains. Other types of burial at sea include the mixing of the ashes with concrete and dropping the concrete block to form an artificial reef such as the Atlantis Reef.
  Below is a list of religions that allow burial at sea, with some details of the burial.
context_section_description: In wartime, attempts are made for burial at sea to follow the same procedure as for peacetime burial at sea, although a ship on a combat mission may not have all the necessary resources available. Nowadays, it is usually possible to airlift the remains back to shore, and prepare a burial ceremony on land. However, as recently as the Falklands War, deceased were buried at sea without returning to land. Due to the limited facilities of military ships, this procedure usually does not include a casket, but the body is sewn into a sailcloth with weights, usually rocks or cannonballs. Cremation is usually not possible on a ship. During the Pacific campaign there was at least one instance where a member of an aircrew was buried at sea in his damaged aircraft, which was ceremonially pushed overboard from an aircraft carrier.
caption: Navy firing detail as part of a burial at sea in 2008 for one of the 316 survivors of the sinking of USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945, during World War II
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