The search for the missing sailor lost overboard from a yacht north of New Zealand has been suspended.
The 63-year-old man is understood to have been swept away after the yacht Platino sustained damage to its rigging 550km north of New Zealand on Monday.
A Royal New Zealand Airforce aircraft was on the scene within 90 minutes of the incident but despite searching over two days the missing man was not found.
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A second man, crew member Nick Saull, died after he was apparently struck by rigging on the yacht.