Living Reef Memorial Program

The Living Reef Memorial Experience

"A Living Reef Memorial is a welcoming positive in an otherwise tragic time. Families who have gone through the Living Reef Memorial experience feel a great sense of pride when talking about the choice they have made for their loved one. Families experience a great feeling of relief and joy knowing that their loved one is going to be giving back to the sea and leaving this planet a better place.

Reefs are individually handcrafted using natural sea shells, sand, ash, and a bit of ocean friendly concrete. After a thirty day curing period the reefs are loaded onto boats for the journey to the deployment area, weather permitting. Just beneath the waves, life is being created through cremation. Not long after the reef is installed onto the sea floor a beautiful and natural transformation occurs.The reef begins to grow and bloom with life as hundreds of species of marine life attach themselves to the reef.

There are a few choices of Reef Deployment Sites within the Georgia Strait, all within a few hundred feet from the shores of Vancouver Island. The first site is located at Cape Lazo; a headland at the tip of the Comox Peninsula near Courtenay, BC. Coffin Point is another site which is located just around the corner from Ladysmith, BC, a small town situated on the 49th parallel.

The third deployment site is near Ten Mile Point between Telegraph Bay and Spring Bay, in Victoria, BC., then there are various sites surrounding the Southern Gulf Islands, (from Snake Island near Nanaimo’s harbour to the south tip of Saturna Island). Across the water there is the south west side of Bowen Island and just off the coast of White Rock BC in Semaiano Bay. Visiting the reefs can be as simple as sitting at the water's edge, kayaking off the shores of our beautiful island, or scuba diving to the reef. Whichever you choose, you can reflect on your loved one and know they are giving life back to the sea."

If you have any questions, please contact us or more information is available at livingreefmemorial.ca