Search suspended for Australian man who went overboard from cruise ship on way to Hawaii

US Coast Guard sent a HC-130 Hercules to hunt for man, who was onboard Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas

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The search for an Australian man who went overboard from a cruise ship in a remote area of the Pacific has been called off for the day, after a US Coast Guard plane exhausted its fuel supply.

A passenger went overboard from Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas before 11pm Tuesday night, local time, two days before it was due to arrive in Honolulu. The ship left Brisbane on 12 April and was about 900km south of Hawaii at the time of the incident.

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