A 37-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of wasting police time, after reports of a baby falling from a ferry turned out not to be true.
Police no longer believe that a baby had fallen from a ferry into Belfast Lough.
A massive search and rescue operation was launched on Wednesday evening following reports that a baby was in the water.
The search was stood down by the Coastguard on Thursday afternoon.
A woman was rescued from the lough after she fell overboard from the Stena Line vessel.
She was treated for hypothermia in the Royal Victoria Hospital and has since been discharged.
A police spokesperson said the search had been called off "after enquiries with the 37-year-old woman and her family".
The alarm was raised at 18:10 BST on Wednesday, as the ferry arrived from Cairnryan in Scotland and was preparing to dock at Belfast Harbour.
The woman was recovered from the water 15 minutes later.
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