San Diego Burial at Sea

Please complete the following steps or give us a call. We can help with all your questions.

1. Mail the original or a certified copy of the death certificate (this will be returned to you) as well as any disposition papers from your Funeral Home or Mortuary. We need this to obtain a California Burial Permit to send to you for transit.

If you have a valid California Burial Permit that states disposition as "At Sea off the coast of San Diego" then we do not need the death certificate.

2. If you will NOT be attening the scattering then fill out the authorization form and mail this and the papers in the previous step to us.

You will receive the transit permit from us in a few days. When you do - take the following steps.

 

1. Decide the type of service you would like to have

• Attended scattering (# people which will attend, Location, Date)?
• View from Shore (Location, Date)?
• UnAttended

2. Send us the ashes (Your funeral home can assist you with this) and tell us your wishes and what features you would like included in the scattering, attachment payment. We accept payment by all the normal methods. Please see our pricing section regarding payment terms.

Our address is:

San Diego Burial at Sea 2240 Shelter Island Dr. San Diego, CA USA 92106

 

Mailing Guidelines

Some points to keep in mind if you are sending the ashes yourself :

• Only the US Postal Service is allowed to ship ashes, Federal Express or UPS are not allowed to to this by law, however a private courier service may be used.
• The ashes must be packed in siftproof containers or other containers that are sealed in durable siftproof outer containers. The original plastic bag provided by the crematory is sufficient for a siftproof container.
• The identity of the contents should bespecified on outside of your container "Cremated human ashes". Please send by registered mail with return receipt service.