The chilling final two words spoken to a teenager who jumped into shark-infested waters in the Bahamas has been revealed. Cameron Robbins was celebrating his high school graduation with friends when he leapt off a party boat and vanished on May 24, 2023. Cameron, who was 18 at the time, was on the Blackbeard's Revenge boat near the uninhabited Athol Island when he was filmed jumping into the ocean at night time. A video captured on board shows the high school baseball star in the water, with an indistinct white shape, possibly a shark, moving nearby.
As panicked screams erupt from the boat, a male voice is heard shouting: "This kid f***ing jumped off! Oh my f***ing God! Oh, shut the f*** up! Oh, bye, bye!" Another person can be heard shouting: "Hey, grab the buoy!", referring to a life preserver in the water. The video ends as Cameron swims away from the life preserver. A hunt to find the popular teen was launched but within two days, rescuers were forced to call it off with no sign of Cameron anywhere to be found.
The teen had only arrived on his graduation holiday to the Caribbean hotspot Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau a few hours before tragedy unfolded aboard the pirate-themed sunset boat excursion. For two days, the expansive search for Cameron saw officials plot and scour a 325-square-mile area of the Caribbean Sea with no luck. Cameron's devastated family travelled to the Bahamas to visit the scene of his disappearance and later paid tribute to him in an online obituary. Describing him as a "beloved grandson, son, brother, and friend," they wrote that he had recently graduated from the University Lab School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Cameron, who was adopted shortly after his birth in November 2004, was said to have thrown himself into every competitive activity he could find from an early age. The tribute revealed that Cameron had recently returned from a fishing trip on the Louisiana Gulf Coast with his father and brother before heading off to the Bahamas. The tribute continued: "Though he left this world far too soon, he lived a life full of good friends and family. He was funny and kind-hearted, but also intense and driven. He doted on his grandparents and he took pride in his work.
"He will be missed desperately by his family and friends, who will carry their cherished memories of him to eternity.". The mother of one of Cameron's friends told Fox News that several students had tried to stop him from jumping, but he broke free. "This was a booze cruise, and they were on their way back when this happened," the unnamed woman said. "My son texted me when it happened, saying, 'Cameron jumped off. They can’t find him.' They were out there until two, three in the morning. It was terrible weather that night. The kids were cold, wet, and traumatised.
"The girls were in bikinis and bathing suits. The guys were giving them their shirts. It was a bad time to bring drunk 18-year-olds out into waters near this island where there's nothing.". Ending the search after two days, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Commodore Raymond King confirmed that the area is populated by a worryingly high number of sharks. He said: "I can tell you that area where an individual reportedly jumped over, it's an area that is really shark-infested as well.".
While he added that he didn’t want the family to lose hope, he admitted: "The probability of survival decreases significantly particularly if a person did not have on a life vest and particularly if a person is perceived to be intoxicated." Before the search was halted, the US Coast Guard had deployed multiple search and rescue assets in collaboration with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force. Speaking to WBRZ, United Cajun Navy Vice President Brian Trascher praised the family of Cameron for their strength. "It took a lot of strength for them to go out there and stay for a few days," he said.
"When we offered to take them out in a boat to the area where he went overboard and some of the area they were searching, they went. I know it had to be very emotional for them, but they went, and by Sunday they decided they wanted to go home. "Had they found a piece of clothing or any kind of clue, that would cause them to extend that 48-hour period, but if they don't get any kind of indication, then that's usually when they call it off.".
