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Cruise ship passenger missing after going overboard on trip to Hawaii

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A passenger on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship is missing after they went overboard Tuesday evening during a trip from Brisbane, Australia to Honolulu, Hawaii.

In a statement, the U.S. Coast Guard said it received a report of a man overboard from the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship just after 11:00 p.m.

Hawaii-Aleutian standard time on Tuesday night. The unnamed Australian passenger reportedly disappeared some 800 kilometres south of Kailua Kona, Big Island. “The crew of the cruise ship remained on scene to search for approximately two hours, deploying six life rings,” the Coast Guard wrote.

Aircrews launched early Wednesday and arrived at the area around 9 a.m. to begin searching. After six hours, the aircraft returned to a base in Hawaii to refuel.

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