'Person overboard' alarm rings out on cruise ship before dawn

A person has gone overboard from a cruise ship heading toward Sydney Harbour pre-dawn. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

NATIONAL: A search for a passenger who went overboard from a P&O cruise ship off Sydney Heads before dawn has come to an end with police finding a body in the water.

NSW Police were told after 4am that a person from the Pacific Adventure was in the water 10 nautical miles south-southeast from the entrance to the harbour.