Search ends for 2 passengers believed to have fallen off cruise ship

cnn ^ | May 10, 2013 | Ed Payne

[JoeProBono]

After scouring hundreds of miles of waters off Australia's coast, authorities on Friday called off a search for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.

The 30-year-old man and 27-year-old woman were reported missing when the Carnival Cruise ship Spirit docked in Sydney on Thursday morning, CNN affiliate Seven Network reported. The first clue came when they didn't claim their luggage.

Maritime officers reviewed surveillance video from the ship and determined that Paul Rossington and Kristen Schroder went overboard Wednesday night. Authorities believe the couple fell about 150 kilometers (93 miles) off Foster, New South Wales.

[JoeProBono]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Authorities believe the couple fell about 150 kilometers (93 miles)

Somebody needs to tell Felix Baumgartner his record's been broken.

[BenLurkin]

The first clue came when they didn't claim their luggage.

Weren't there five other people with them on this trip? Nobody checked up on them?

[PoloSec]

That’s one way to disappear!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I wonder if alcohol was involved.

[Resolute Conservative]

Nookie on the balcony and oops...

[US_MilitaryRules]

I have a few friends who are on a cruise in europe and they are sicker than dogs. And they are quarantined.

[henkster]

It’s amazing what people will do to get off a Carnival ship.

[rktman]

Some lucky sharks ate well. Sad way to go though.

[Youngman542012]

The seas were calm..it was the last night....I think a little sex on the rail for a last fling went bad....you don´t just fall off....or a suicide..but they seemed pretty young....????

[SeaHawkFan]

They went over the side Wednesday night and the ship docked Thursday morning, so there was no reason to expect their traveling companions would notice them missing.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Now they’re really in the Land Down Under. /sorry

[ErnBatavia]

Last year my sis/bro-in-law started on their cruise of a lifetime -- three weeks doing Greece and Italy.

On day two, he got violently ill and spent the Atlantic crossing in the infirmary....at the Canary Islands, they yanked his gallbladder and he spent ten days in the hospital.

[ScottinVA]

Don't know the circumstances, but I can't help but think they may have been looking for that "romantic moment. There's a really, really good reason ship safety rules discourage acts like this.

[ScottinVA]

On day two, he got violently ill and spent the Atlantic crossing in the infirmary....at the Canary Islands, they yanked his gallbladder and he spent ten days in the hospital.

Wow... THAT made memories all right... just the wrong ones.

[Carriage Hill]

You couldn’t get me on to one of those floating crapholes at gunpoint.

[glyptol]

You could not get me on a cruise ship with a crowbar.

[PghBaldy]

It docked on Thursday, it is believed they fell/jumped/were pushed on Wed night.

[ken5050]

How long before they retrofit all cruise ships with 10 foot high railings....heck..maybe we can get Janet Napolitano to “certify” that the borders, er..railing on cruise ships are secure..

[JoeProBono]