Neptune Memorial Reef ~ Creating Life, After Life
The Neptune Memorial Reef™, a unique memorial site inspired by the Lost City of Atlantis, has many admirers. Read on for print and video news items from sources as diverse as National Geographic and French TV program Thalassa highlighting this green burial alternative.
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Underwater Mausoleums, Memorial Reefs – What Are Your Plans For The Afterlife?
South Florida Sun Sentinel • 14 Aug 2018 Two new reefs have popped up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, each made of concrete culvert and pipes, each memorializing the life of John Michael Baker, a seagoing 17-year-old who lost his life in a boating accident in 2015....
Reef Cemetery Is Now Home To New Life
Associated Press • 12 Aug 2018 A year after Will and Daniel Payne lost their mom, and nearly two decades since their father’s death, it was time to follow their wishes for the afterlife. As they board a boat with three generations of family, the brothers slip into...
Underwater Cemetery Brings New Life To Florida’s Reef
The Times • 11 Aug 2018 An underwater cemetery modelled on the lost city of Atlantis grants the dead a place to sleep with the fishes. The Neptune Memorial Reef lies three miles off the Florida coast near Key Biscayne at a depth of 40ft. It is the most bio-diverse...
People In Florida Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Be Buried In Underwater Graveyard
BGR • 9 Aug 2018 Making plans for what will happen to you after your death is always kind of weird, whether you believe in an afterlife or not. Where your earthly remains end up is something that is often discussed with your closest family members, but the end of the...
Incredible Photos Of Underwater Coral Reef Memorial
Daily Mail • 7 Aug 2018 A Texas couple’s final resting place is buried along the ocean floor off the coast of southern Florida in a unique underwater mausoleum, which is now home to more than a thousand cremated human remains. Ever since The Neptune Memorial Reef, a...
South Florida coral reef cemetery allows mourners, sea creatures to flourish
Herald-Tribune • 7 Aug 2018 A year after Will and Daniel Payne lost their mom, and nearly two decades since their father’s death, it was time to follow their wishes for the afterlife. As they board a boat with three generations of family, the brothers slip into...
Families Finding Life In The Afterlife At Coral Reef Cemetery Off Cost Of Miami Beach
NBC 6 South Florida • 7 Aug 2018 A year after Will and Daniel Payne lost their mom, and nearly two decades since their father’s death, it was time to follow their wishes for the afterlife. As they board a boat with three generations of family, the brothers slip into...
Reef Offers New Choice To Honor Loved Ones After Cremation
Palm Coast Observer • 27 Mar 2018 When discussing funeral plans, Sonny Acedo, a Flagler Beach man, had told his wife, Michele, to scatter his ashes in the ocean. When he died a year ago in March, Michele was making arrangements at Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home and...
You Can Sleep With The Fishes By Choice
Miami Herald • 18 Mar 2018 You can sleep with the fishes. By choice. It’s the only way to go for those who want to return to the sea whence we came. Miami’s Neptune Memorial Reef, a final resting place like no other, is expanding. One day, the cremated remains of...