The US Coast Guard has so far found no sign of an Australian passenger believed to have fallen overboard a cruise ship traveling from Brisbane to Hawaii.
In statement, the coast guard said it had received a report from the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship late night Tuesday, of a man overboard some 500 miles south of Kailua Kona, Big Island. The cruise ship remained on scene for about two hours and deployed six life rings in attempt to save the passenger, but resumed its journey when no trace of him was found, the coast guard said.
“The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities,” it added. A passenger on board the vessel, Georgina Thompson, told Nine News she and her husband were in bed when they heard the call “Oscar, oscar, oscar” – the cruise ship line’s code for “man overboard.” “There were lights, you know, the big lights shining on the ocean,” she said.
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