Cameron Robbins, a recent high school graduate from Louisiana, reportedly yelled “Bye, bye!” as he jumped from a boat into shark-infested waters in the Bahamas.
On May 24, the 18-year-old from Baton Rouge jumped overboard from a vessel designed to resemble a pirate ship, presumably as a dare. He was on a sunset cruise with several hundred fellow graduates.
In a chilling video of the incident that has since gone viral on social media, the baseball star is seen swimming away from a life preserver bobbing near him in the dark waters while someone yells, “This kid f–king jumped off! Oh my f–king God! Oh, shut the f–k up! Oh, bye, bye!”
The video shows horrified shipboard observers yelling at Robbins to “grab the buoy,” but the teen appears to swim in the opposite direction, possibly confronting a shark nearby.
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On the left side of the screen in the video, a white object can be seen, but the recording is too shaky and chaotic to determine what it is. According to Commodore Raymond King of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, the waters in that area are “really shark-infested,” which has fuelled the shark-attack theory.
As soon as the person on the boat yelled, “Bye, bye!” online viewers speculated that Robbins was wounded by one of the predators. The video capturing Robbins’ final moments has been viewed over 10 million times on TikTok, and Web detectives have edited the footage to slow it down and brighten it in an attempt to cast light on what occurred, but without success.
The US Coast Guard and local Bahamian authorities spent days searching for Robbins before suspending their search a week ago after combing over 325 square miles of ocean.
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Spado, Coast Guard liaison officer to the Bahamas said –
“We offer our sincerest condolences to Cameron Robbins’ family and friends.”
On May 21, Robbins graduated from University Laboratory High School in Baton Rouge, where he excelled as a baseball player. Robbins and his friends joined graduates from other institutions three days later for a celebratory trip to the Bahamas, where they stayed at the Atlantis Paradise Resort.
Robbins and the other recent high school graduates checked into their hotel and then took an evening sail around uninhabited Athol Island, north of Nassau.
A few days after Robbins vanished, his family traveled from Louisiana to the Bahamas to participate in the search and explore the area where he was last seen, before returning home on Sunday. Robbins’s memorial service will take place in Baton Rouge on Sunday afternoon (June 4).
