Fellow passenger Mitch Talbot said cruise guests were informed about the incident over the ship\u2019s intercom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite sombre, and it was a bit eerie the rest of the day. A lot of the staff kind of took some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around 600 passengers are currently aboard the five-day voyage across the Tasman, setting sail from Melbourne to Auckland on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The ship is now expected to arrive in Auckland\u2019s port on Wednesday afternoon, a day later than scheduled.<\/p>\n
In the sailing\u2019s Facebook group, several cruise guests anticipated they may miss their connecting flights.<\/p>\n
Disney confirmed in August that the crossing will be one of the company\u2019s final transtasman cruises for the foreseeable future. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Disney Wonder will not return to Australia and New Zealand for the 2026-27 season, we want to reassure you that sailings from this region remain a strong consideration for future itineraries.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Disney Wonder will voyage across the region for the last time on January 30 before being repositioned to Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Launched in 1999, the 11-deck vessel first set sail around New Zealand in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow passenger Mitch Talbot said cruise guests were informed about the incident over the ship\u2019s intercom. \u201cThe captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,11429,41571,51,138,2037,2398,46662,100460,78,296,4507,5836,5158,111,139,69,17091,14734,3008,1870,17093,2224,61,1533,9857],"class_list":["post-150171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-arrive","tag-arriving","tag-auckland","tag-business","tag-cruise","tag-disney","tag-headed","tag-hourslong","tag-in","tag-into","tag-late","tag-lost","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overboard","tag-passenger","tag-sea","tag-search","tag-ship","tag-tasman","tag-to","tag-will","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}