"I tell new scuba divers this: The ocean doesn’t care about you. It’s not actively trying to kill you. But it will do a lot of things on its own that will absolutely kill you if you’re not prepared and paying attention.
I realize this could apply to any natural environment but it feels much more apt when talking about the ocean. One wave that you weren’t prepared for can make your day pretty bad. For the ocean it’s just business as usual."
Not a bad idea but you might want to avoid the word dumping.
Burial at sea is the more common term.
More likely than not the writer was referring to Hawley Harvey Crippen. Check out the article at www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-notorious-case-of-dr-crippen/