NSW Deputy Coroner Hugh Dillon will later this month hand down his findings into the deaths of two cruise ship passengers who went overboard.
Property manager Kristen Schroder, 26, tumbled from the balcony of her cabin on the Carnival Spirit into the Tasman Sea on May 8, 2013, an inquest heard on Tuesday.
Her paramedic boyfriend Paul Rossington jumped in after her, plummeting into dark and choppy waters 120 kilometres off the NSW coast.
Infra-red CCTV captured the couple's final moments on the ship.
The pair were not reported missing until the next morning after the ship docked in Sydney.
Their bodies have never been found and an expert said they would not have survived long in the water after such a long fall.
The advocate assisting the coroner, Sergeant Erika Mulligan, told the inquest Ms Schroder's death appeared accidental and that Mr Rossington simply acted on instinct.
A representative for Carnival Australia told the inquest the company is close to successfully trialling an automated system to detect man overboard situations.
Mr Dillon will hand down his recommendations on June 29.
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