Search for Australian Who Fell Overboard Cruise Ship Called Off

Search for Australian Who Fell Overboard Cruise Ship Called Off
People sit and enjoy the facilites on the top deck onboard the cruise ship Quantum of the Seas in Southampton, England, on Oct. 31, 2014. Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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The search for Australian man who went overboard a cruise ship has been suspended by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The man, identified as 35-year-old Warwick Tollemache, was on board the Royal Caribbean cruise from Brisbane to Honolulu, fell into the ocean at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday, local time (Wednesday evening Australian Eastern time), about 800 kilometres (500 miles) south of Hawaii’s Big Island.