Burial at Sea - People Buried at Sea

People Buried At Sea

A few notable burials at sea:

• Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) (body in lead coffin off the coast of Portobelo, Panama)
• Edward Winslow (1595–1655) (buried at sea near Jamaica on 8 May 1655)
• Numerous RMS Titanic victims (1912) (picked up by rescue ships, whose remains were too damaged to preserve or for whom the rescuers lacked sufficient embalming materials, were buried at sea)
• Dudley Pound (1877–1943) (cremated ashes scattered)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946) (cremated and ashes scattered in the sea off England)
• Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) (Following his execution in Israel, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea over the Mediterranean, in international waters. This was done because Israel did not want such a person buried in its soil, and also did not want a grave elsewhere that might have become a place of pilgrimage for other Nazis.)
• Janis Joplin (1943–1970) (cremated at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, and her ashes scattered into the Pacific ocean)
• Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) (cremated ashes scattered)
• Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) (ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980) (cremated and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean)
• Dennis Wilson (1944–1983) (cremated ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean off California)
• Peter Lawford (1923–1984), actor, was cremated and ashes originally buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery; they were later removed and scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985) (cremated ashes scattered)
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) (cremated, and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean)
• Stan Getz (1927–1991) (cremated, and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Malibu, California)
• Vincent Price (1911–1993) (ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California)
• Gene Kelly (1912–1996) (cremated ashes scattered)
• Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) (cremated ashes scattered)
• John F. Kennedy, Jr (1960–1999) (scattered into the Atlantic Ocean by the U. S. Navy off Martha's Vineyard)
• DeForest Kelley (1920–1999) (ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• Doug Henning (1947–2000) (cremated, and ashes scattered into the Pacific Ocean of Redondo Beach, California)
• Werner Klemperer (1920–2000) (cremated ashes scattered)
• Sir Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) (cremated, and ashes scattered in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf)
• Leyla Gencer (1928–2008) (ashes were scattered into the Bosphorus)
• Osama Bin Laden (1957–2011) One U.S. official stated that "finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult." It was also done to prevent his burial place from becoming a "terrorist shrine".
• Dick Clark (1929-2012) (cremated and ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• John Carradine (1906-1988), full body burial into the Indian Ocean by his family.
• Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) (cremated, ashes scattered into the Atlantic Ocean from the U. S. Navy cruiser Philippine Sea)