I can tell you this Prancy, if Aruba is anything like Bonaire, which I'm told it is, there is no way she is buried. You cannot dig with a simple shovel, it would take a jackhammer to get through that coral. One of our friends had a small in ground pool put in & it cost him $30,000 just to dig the hole and it is a small pool. We had clothes drying poles installed at our house & it cost us $700 for 2 poles because they had to dig. Even in the areas where you have dirt, once you get down a foot or 2 you run into that rock hard coral. Nope, she is not buried. As far as disposal of a body at sea, I would say that is certainly possible, but I don't know why the body would not come to shore eventually because on the windward sides of the islands the waves are huge & the shore is littered with all kinds of cruise ship junk & broken coral brought in from the sea. In Natalee's case, Joran had access to a boat & could have taken her far out with some weight on her. Once a body gets down a couple hundred feet, it won't be coming back up again, perfect example are deep shipwrecks, the bodies stay in the wrecks. They don't even bury their dead on Bonaire, the bodies are in above ground crypts like in New Orleans. New Orleans does it because of sea level, but Bonaire does it because its impossible to dig all those graves. Hope this helps.
