Royal Caribbean passenger goes overboard on trip to Hawaii

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The plane completed five search patterns, which involved tracking drift patterns in the ocean using locator beacons, but was unable to find the man. "Our family is heartbroken at the loss of our beloved Warwick," Mandy Tollemache wrote. In a statement to The Post, Royal Caribbean said its crew immediately sprang into action following the incident. Another Aussie Georgina Thompson said she was sleeping in her cabin when she realised something had gone wrong. “We were in bed and we heard it come over the PA system someone singing out “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar” and then that's when everything started to happen,” she told the Today show.

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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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"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”.

Royal Caribbean passenger goes overboard on trip to Hawaii

All passengers were told to go back to their rooms so crew could conduct a head count. “We went onto our balcony and saw the searchlights and were sort of sitting there praying and hoping he’d be found,” one woman said. Yesterday, a C-130 Hercules aircrew carried out a six-hour aerial search of the area but was unable to locate the man. The crew member was noted missing when the ship docked at Fort Lauderdale Saturday.

The ship left Brisbane on 12 April and was about 900km south of Hawaii at the time of the incident. 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. The Brisbane man was holidaying on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Quantum of the Seas when he went over the railings, some 1,400 kilometres south of Hawaii on Tuesday evening (local time). The search for the overboard man resumed Wednesday morning as a Coast Guard helicopter conducted a six-hour aerial search in the area, but failed to locate the missing man. "We've been told the coast guard and helicopters are still out searching in the ocean, in the area where the man went."

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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."

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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.

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Quantum of the Seas is on a 16-night cruise that departed Brisbane on April 12 and is set to conclude in Honolulu on April 28, local time. The cruise company has now confirmed a woman died from a medical episode just hours before Tollemache went overboard. Tollemache fell overboard while the ship was about 800km south of Kailua-Kona on the west coast of O’ahu, also known as Big Island, at 11pm on Tuesday (Wednesday night AEST). The Coast Guard confirmed to The Post it is still conducting a search and rescue operation in the waters off Cuba. “The early morning was definitely somber as so many people came out of their cabins to stare at the sea, hoping to be able to aid in finding the person,” said Amy Phelps Fouse, a passenger on the ship.

"There were a lot of announcements, telling us that the ship was being turned around, most people could feel the ship had changed course, it was a bit bumpy in the water. "We looked out of the window up on the deck and [saw] a lot of life preservers … the big rings were getting thrown overboard, at least eight or nine of those got thrown overboard. "All the staff just dropped everything and ran to every possible vantage point on the ship," Mr Hardy said. "To be real, for me personally it was very surreal and quite sad. It was quite confronting, we were all out trying to spot anything to help the staff. “We were wondering what was going on and it was followed by an announcement over the intercom saying that a passenger had gone overboard,” she said. Rukavina said he didn’t know whether Tollemache was travelling alone or with family.

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.

“They should have kept looking – I don’t understand why they stopped the search,” she said. Fisher confirmed the Australian went overboard 500 nautical miles (926km) south of Hawaii’s Big Island. "We were wondering what was going on and it was followed by an announcement over the intercom saying that a passenger had gone overboard," Susan Whittington said.

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.

A passenger aboard the Quantum of the Seas at the time of the incident told Nine's Today program they were awoken at night by the ship's sudden halt. An immediate rescue mission was conducted by crew, however this morning they have made the tragic choice to end the search after discussions with his next of kin. A Royal Caribbean spokesperson said in a statement that crews are working with local authorities.

"The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities," the spokesperson said. Ken, another passenger on board the ship, told 7NEWS.com.au he and his wife were awake at the time of the incident, and saw the lifeboats and search lights being used. The US Coast Guard received the report from Royal Caribbean at 1am Hawaii time, and launched a Hercules aircraft at 7am Wednesday which reached the search area at 9am. The US Coast Guard is preparing to resume the search at first light on Thursday morning local time. The US Coast Guard said it will resume its search at first light on Friday morning local time, for a Brisbane man who went overboard from a cruise ship off Hawaii on Wednesday night. “The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort alongside the US Coast Guard, who has taken over the search,” the statement reads.