A 56-year-old Russian sailor has died after being lost from a cargo ship approximately 650 nautical miles northeast of St. John’s.

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax received the call of a man overboard on Tuesday morning.

A Hercules and an Aurora aircraft out of Greenwood, Nova Scotia, were sent to the scene, while two commercial vessels and a P-8 fixed-wing aircraft out of the U.K. joined the search.

Weather conditions were favourable, but despite the effort, and a search that extended 20 hours beyond expected survivability, no sign of the missing man was detected and the search was called off.