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- Brisbane man missing after falling overboard from Quantum of the Seas cruise ship near Hawaii, US Coast Guard confirms
- US Coast Guard suspends search for Australian man seen falling from cruise
- ‘Gentle soul’: family pays tribute to Australian Warwick Tollemach who disappeared from cruise
- Cruise passenger reveals heartbreaking details
- Search suspended for cruise ship passenger who fell overboard off Hawaii
“There was a show during the night and the music stopped before it was announced there was a medical emergency and apparently the person passed away,” he said, Daily Mail Australia reports. Two tragedies have rocked the cruise ship where an Australian man fell overboard in waters south of Hawaii overnight, leaving passengers stunned. “The coast guard has made the difficult decision to suspend the active search for the passenger aboard the Quantum of the Seas,” he said. Coast Guard crews have suspended the search for an Australian cruise ship passenger off the coast of Hawaii following a report of a person overboard, officials said Thursday.
Brisbane man missing after falling overboard from Quantum of the Seas cruise ship near Hawaii, US Coast Guard confirms
However, Royal Caribbean has quashed the claims, saying the incidents were not connected. “The Coast Guard has made the difficult decision to suspend the active search for the passenger aboard the Quantum of the Seas,” search and rescue mission co-ordinator Kevin Cooper said on Friday. She said the mood on-board the cruise ship was “sombre” on Thursday morning, as passengers discussed the shocking news over breakfast. There are reportedly hundreds of Australians onboard, one of which told 2GB on Thursday morning another person onboard died earlier in the evening following a medical emergency.
US Coast Guard suspends search for Australian man seen falling from cruise
Brad Hardy, from Mount Isa, said he was on deck 14 of the cruise ship when he heard the emergency broadcast. The devastated family of a Queensland man lost at sea after going overboard while on a Hawaii-bound cruise has posted loving tributes after search efforts were suspended. The sprawling cruise ship has 16 decks and fits 4,905 guests and 1,500 crew members, according to its website.
‘Gentle soul’: family pays tribute to Australian Warwick Tollemach who disappeared from cruise
The cruise company has now confirmed a woman died from a medical episode just hours before the man disappeared. Discussions with his next of kin and the Australian consulate, as well as relevant case information, helped inform the decision, search and rescue mission co-ordinator Kevin Cooper said. After searching for more than six hours, the US Coast Guard announced the “difficult decision” to suspend the search for Tollemache.
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Cruise passenger reveals heartbreaking details
Thompson told Nine’s Today Show she and her husband then went out on their deck to see the lights and lifeboats deployed, but at the time didn’t know what was happening. No other aircraft were available to continue the search, including the US navy, who were contacted, Fisher said. The coast guard issued an urgent call to any ships in the area that might be able to help. "You couldn't really see much, just the lights searching the area, but then it was very late at night."
A Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger is missing after he went overboard Tuesday night during a trip from Australia to Hawaii. After failed search efforts by crew members on the ship, which remained at the location for more than two hours, the US Coast Guard stepped in, allowing the cruise to continue on its course towards Hawaii. “We’ll do our best to provide assistance and support to the family (and) out of respect we will not provide any other details,” the captain said. Brisbane man Warwick Tollemache, 35, fell overboard from the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas ship in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday night, sparking a major air and sea search. 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.
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Quantum of the Seas is on a 16-night cruise scheduled to conclude in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 28. The deck area where the man is believed to have gone overboard has now been taped off. Rukavina claims the man fell from the 15th-floor balcony, about 20m above his room and directly above the main pool area. "We even witnessed staff when, we were in Tahiti [earlier], practising retrievals in the water," she said.
Another passenger said there was a somber mood over the cruise ship, while staffers remained tight-lipped. Royal Caribbean did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment but confirmed in a statement to Nine News that a passenger on board the Quantum of the Seas was missing. Earlier reports suggested the two incidents were related, but a Royal Caribbean spokesperson has confirmed to Yahoo News Australia they are not. The ship had departed Brisbane on April 12 for a two-week cruise to the Hawaiian Islands before tragedy struck with a huge air and sea search so far failing to find any trace of the missing man.
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Rukavina claims Tollemache fell from the 15th-floor balcony, about 20m above his room and directly above the main pool area. With the combination of the 16-storey fall, exhaustion, dehydration and hyperthermia, “the chances of survival are very, very small”, survival expert and physiologist professor Michael Tipton told 7NEWS. Cooper said the decision came after discussions with Tollemache’s family and Australian authorities.
After searching through Thursday and for more than six hours on Friday, the US Coast Guard made the “difficult decision” to suspend the operation. Georgina Thompson, a passenger on board the Quantum of the Seas, said she and her husband were in bed when they heard “Oscar Oscar Oscar” – Royal Caribbean’s emergency code for man overboard. The ship's crew remained on scene to search for approximately two hours before resuming course for the Big Island. The US Coast Guard suspended its search for the missing Australian on Friday, after he went overboard while travelling on a Royal Caribbean cruise from Brisbane to Hawaii. The Australian man missing off Hawaii after going overboard from a cruise ship has been identified as 35-year-old Warwick Tollemache.
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In the past few years, most cruise lines have enacted onboard safety measures and surveillance systems to help reduce the risk of overboard deaths. A cruise turned into a nightmare for people aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas when a young man jumped overboard shortly after 4 a.m. The US Navy and Coast Guard were called in to assist in a search-and-rescue mission for the Australia national. The ship left Brisbane on April 12 and was expected to reach Honolulu’s port on Friday before the passenger went missing. Rukavina said the US Coast Guard had now taken over search efforts to locate the man. A Royal Caribbean Cruise Line spokesperson confirmed the Quantum of the Seas departed Brisbane on April 12 and is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu on April 28.
"All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line said in a statement. According to the Washington Post, about 386 people were reported to have gone overboard on the major cruise lines between 2000 to 2020. The passenger, from Australia, plunged into the waters from the Quantum of the Seas ship as it was cruising towards Honolulu, according to the cruise line and reports. Petty officer Ryan Fisher said the coast guard’s C130 Hercules aircraft dropped tracking buoys during the search to “get a better idea of what the surface ocean currents are”.
Discussions with the man’s next of kin and the Australian consulate, as well as relevant case information, helped inform the decision, search and rescue mission coordinator Kevin Cooper said in a statement. “The crew of the cruise ship remained on scene to search for approximately two hours, deploying six life rings,” the release said. With six hours’ of fuel, the plane ended its search at 3pm local time, Fisher said. The cruise ship initially released six life rings and stayed in the area for two hours before continuing their journey to Honolulu where passengers disembarked after 15 days at sea. After an extensive search from the US Coast Guard over several days, the search was suspended. A man whose family was aboard the ship said they told him that the missing passenger’s partner had died just moments before he went overboard.
The cruise ship stayed on the scene to look for the man for about two hours, deploying six life rings during the search, before it had to resume its journey to refuel, according to the Coast Guard statement. The US Coast Guard is still searching for an Australian passenger believed to have gone overboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship hundreds of miles from Hawaii on Tuesday night. The cruise ship deployed six life rings and stayed in the area for two hours before continuing on its way, with the coast guard taking over the search on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, an air search with the Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point C-130 Hercules aircrew launched at 7 a.m. In a speech addressing passengers on Thursday morning, the captain said his “deepest sympathies and thoughts” were with the man’s family. The grieving partner of an Australian man who fell to his suspected death from a cruise ship travelling to Hawaii has shared her devastation over the search being called off.
