HONOLULU — The search is underway for a passenger reported overboard from a cruise ship approximately 750 miles northeast of Hilo.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center were notified at approximately 1 p.m. by the crew of the Grand Princess that a 30-year-old American female was overboard.
The passenger was last seen at approximately 12 p.m.
The cruise ship has changed course and is currently searching for the missing passenger. An HC-130 Hercules airplane crew is en route from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point.
