A Disney cruise on its way to Auckland has been delayed after a man went overboard.<\/p>\n
The 73-year-old Melbourne man is presumed dead after going overboard from the\u00a0Disney Wonder<\/a>\u00a0cruise ship at around 4:30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n Victoria Police said the man’s body had yet to be recovered and they were preparing a report for the coroner,<\/p>\n The cruise ship initially turned around and circled the waters for about five hours as they tried to find the man, 7 News reported.<\/p>\n “The captain came on and updated the boat and basically stated that there was someone, a passenger had fallen overboard … (but) that they were unable to find them,” passenger Mitch Talbot told 7News.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Port of Auckland told RNZ the Disney Wonder ship was due to arrive in Auckland early tomorrow morning but had been delayed until closer to midday.<\/p>\n It comes after Disney Cruise Line confirmed it would stop travelling to Australia and New Zealand at the end of the current cruise season.<\/p>\n If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.<\/b><\/p>\n Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Disney cruise on its way to Auckland has been delayed after a man went overboard. The 73-year-old Melbourne man is presumed dead after going overboard from the\u00a0Disney Wonder\u00a0cruise ship at around 4:30am on Saturday. Victoria Police said the man’s body had yet to be recovered and they were preparing a report for the coroner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15784,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions\/15784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where to get help:<\/h3>\n
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