Family honors grandfather who died in WWII shipwreck off Cape May coast
While aboard the Explorer, family members placed notes, ashes and keepsakes into a stainless steel tube. With the vessel anchored above the wreck, owner Rusty Cassway and other divers carried the canister 120 feet down to the ocean floor.
"We buried it inside the shipwreck for it never to be found again but to be with their father and their grandfather," Cassway said.
The family also scattered ashes above the surface and directly over the ship's final resting place.
Cassway said helping the family reach the site was about more than operating a vessel.
"This wasn't a business transaction or a boat charter," he said. "This was the right thing to do and that's why we did it."