San Diego Burial At Sea

Far exceeded expectations. The experience can truly be customized to the type of service you want — from low key to a full out celebration.
The team is there to make sure your day is exactly as your friend or family member would have imagined. The first thing they said was ‘the entire boat is yours’ and they truly made us feel that way.
It honestly changed our group’s opinions on how we want to be celebrated after we pass. What a perfect experience!

Last week was a very difficult time for our family as we scattered the ashes of our Sister, but Burial at Sea helped us create a lasting memory that we will hold for many years. From our first conversation with Tawanna to the final good bye, she and the team at Burials at Sea were wonderful to work with. They even went well out of thier way to accomodate our Family’s request to find a «Turtle Urn» to float, rather than scattering the ashes. Just as we were about to begin our Service a Pod of Whales appears and swam around and under the boat! We scattered over 6 dozen rose petals, all pink and white as we slowly released our Sister to the Sea. As the Captain circled the site and the music played, we all felt a sense of peace. It was truly a magical experience and a beautiful tribute to our Siser.

Very, very happy with all the help from San Diego Burials at Sea.
We scattered both my mother’s and father’s ashes. Tawanna was easy to work with and made the experience a great one.
My parents met at a particular beach/​point in La Jolla, and Captain Paul went out of his way to make sure we were right off shore from that point. How great is that? Was a perfect send off for them both.
Highly recommend

They did a great job — could not have asked for a better experience. Would highly recommend.

The team at San Diego Burial at Sea was amazing from the first call I made to Tawanna to the experience on the charter with the team. It was a tough day for me and my family as we scattered my Mom’s ashes, but the staff really made us feel at ease. They were very empathetic and nice.
The charter was beautiful and clean and the captain took us out past Point Loma where we had the backdrop of the Hotel del Coronado. It could not have been prettier. After reading some poems and sharing some thoughts we dispersed the ashes into the sea. And the way the ashes are placed in an urn with rose petals made for a very beautiful spreading of the ashes.
The staff was so friendly and really helped to keep things light with some humor mixed in so that once we got back to the dock we were in good spirits.
All in all it was an exceptional experience. It is one of the hardest days we ever have to go through, however San Diego Burial at Sea made it as happy of a memory that we could ask for. I without a doubt recommend them to anyone in need of their services.

My Mom passed unexpectedly in March, I wanted to do everything I could to honor her wishes but didn’t know who to turn to and was sceptical of the couple of companies I did speak with. Then I discovered SD Burial at Sea! I worked with Tawanna who was just wonderful! I felt instanly at ease and knew I could trust this company with my Mom’s remains. Her burial was lovely and I know she was very pleased! San Diego Burial at Sea is a very caring, ethical company who provides that personal touch you need during a time of loss.

I flew from New York to San Diego to spread my brother’s ashes in the Pacific. From the get go I felt very comfortable and trusting of them and chose to use them for this ceremony. I was met by the captain and the hostess as promised, and was escorted to a beautiful 52-​foot yacht. Our party of 4 were the only ones on the boat (it fits 12) and it was perfect for this very personal moment, I was not looking to this with a bunch of other people doing the same.
They made everything very comfortable and always asked me how I wanted to do just about everything from transferring ashes to the another container which is lowered in to the water, the spot where I we wanted to spread the ashes, and let me put my Iphone on the boats speakers with music I wanted to play during the whole thing.
The spreading was very beautiful because they intermix the ashes with rose petals, and they suggested sun flowers to throw because they look so bright and pretty and lets you focus on them as the ashes disapper in to the ocean. I highly recommend them from the great experience we all had.

My relatives and I took a boat ride to scatter my dad’s ashes out to sea. I would recommend this company should I have to do this again.
The boat ride was a total of 2 hours long and it had a crew of 3. The boat could hold up to 35 passengers and the total price was $ 1,456.00. We chose to do it in the afternoon and it was nice we were able to pick what time we wanted to go out.
They had a bucket filled with rose petals that we mixed the ashes in with. They also provided some seashells for us to write messages in to throw overboard with the ashes. We wanted to lower the ashes out in to the sea ourselves, but they did give us the option of having them do it for us.
Later that evening, I received an email from them with a certificate of the event that included the latitude and longitude of the location we scattered the ashes in case we ever wanted to return to that site in the future.
The only thing I would do differently is find another place to park. The dock is next to the Sheraton Hotel self parking area and even though we parked for only a little over two hours, it cost each of our cars $ 14.