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Written by Kari Reinikainen Kari Reinikainen
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Published: 10 May 2013 10 May 2013

Authorities were conducting an air and marine search Thursday off Australia’s east coast for two cruise passengers who were believed to have fallen overboard the night before, a media report said.

The couple from New South Wales were discovered missing Thursday morning after the 86,000 gross ton Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney’s Circular Quay, at the end of a 10 day cruise, said New South Wales state Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings.

He said surveillance camera footage showed that the couple — a 30-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman — fell from the ship’s mid deck Wednesday night, when the ship was about 120 kilometres off the coast of Forster, a city 300 kilometres north of Sydney.