The US Coast Guard suspended the search for an Australian cruise ship passenger who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean ship in waters south of Hawaii last week. Kevin Cooper, a search and rescue mission coordinator for the Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu, said in a news release that the Coast Guard decided to call off the search after reviewing the case and discussing it with Australian consular officials and the passenger’s next of kin.

The ship Quantum of the Seas notified the Coast Guard of a man overboard Tuesday night when the ship was 800 km south of Kailua-Kona.

The ship searched for the passenger for about two hours before resuming its course to the Big Island. A Coast Guard C-130 air crew spent six hours searching on Wednesday before returning to Oahu to refuel.

Quantum of the Seas left Brisbane, Australia on April 12 and was enroute to Honolulu. A suspected cause of the case was not provided.

According to statistics provided by CLIA, approximately 20 people a year fell overboard off of cruise ships between 2009 and 2019.