Authorities suspend search for missing cruise ship passenger

MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard is suspending the search for a missing cruise ship passenger from Illinois.

A spokesman says aircrews from the Coast Guard Air Station in Clearwater, Florida searched for more than 1,500 miles of ocean since Steven Manning of Ottawa was reported missing Tuesday.

The 44-year-old from was on the cruise ship Carnival Victory with his wife. He went missing almost 40 miles northeast of Cozumel, Mexico.

The Coast Guard did not release his home town.