unilad homepage
unilad homepage
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • World News
    • Crime
    • Health
    • Money
    • Sport
    • Travel
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Film and TV
    • News
    • DC Comics
    • Disney
    • Marvel
    • Netflix
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Archive
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Chilling last words shouted at missing teen after he jumped off cruise ship into shark-infested waters
Home>News>US News
Updated 17:30 25 Feb 2024 GMTPublished 17:31 25 Feb 2024 GMT

Chilling last words shouted at missing teen after he jumped off cruise ship into shark-infested waters

Cameron Robbins was just 18-years-old when he jumped off the ship

Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton

google discoverFollow us on Google Discover
Featured Image Credit: Family Handout / Reddit

Topics: News, US News, World News

Niamh Shackleton
Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton is an experienced journalist for UNILAD, specialising in topics including mental health and showbiz, as well as anything Henry Cavill and cat related. She has previously worked for OK! Magazine, Caters and Kennedy.

X

@niamhshackleton

Advert

Advert

Advert

A video may have revealed the last words said to 18-year-old Cameron Robbins as he jumped off a cruise ship, never to be seen again.

Cameron graduated high school last year and went on a cruise with his feinds to celebrate the huge milestone.

On the trip in the Bahamas, Cameron was filmed jumping into the ocean water at night.

Jumping off a cruise ship is already likely to already be advised against, but doing so at night is even more dangerous due to the lack of visibility below.

Advert

In a video of the incident, which was claimed to be a dare, Cameron was seen in the water after witnesses said he jumped overboard at around 9:40pm local time.

He was last seen paddling around in the water before disappearing from view, with the boat staying in place for several hours in an attempt to find the teen.

Official search attempts for Cameron were called off on May 27, 2023, as the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and the US Coast Guard Southeast were unable to locate him in the water.

The video of Cameron swimming went viral following his disappearance, and some viewers believed they'd even spotted something moving in the water which could have been a shark.

Cameron Robbins went missing on 24 May, 2023, after jumping overboard from a cruise ship.
cam_robbins3/Instagram.

The former University Laboratory School student has not been seen since his fellow passengers on the cruise ship saw him disappear from view shortly after going overboard.

The footage also contained the last words that Cameron may have heard before going missing that night on May 24.

One person could be heard shouting "bye bye" to him as he was in the water, while others people on board the cruise ship attempted to get his attention.

Several more could be heard shouting to him that he's swimming away from a buoy, which would have helped keep him afloat in the sea.

There were shouts of "grab the buoy" and "hey the buoy" to the hopes of keeping Cameron afloat, but their efforts were in vain as he was unable to spot it.

Viewers think the circled image was potentially a shark.
Reddit/QuietWest3764

He then vanished from the view of the panicked onlookers and has not been seen since, with the water he went into described as 'really shark infested' by Royal Bahamas Defense Force Commodore Raymond King.

To this day, the late teenager's body is yet to be recovered - and a shark expert believes it's unlikely it ever will be.

Kevin McMurray said at the time of the tragic ordeal: "Recovering [Cameron's remains] would be nearly impossible. Something like that, you're talking about a massive search area with currents and all that."

While his family haven't been able to properly lay Cameron to rest, they held a memorial for him in the weeks that followed his disappearance.

  • Four missing scuba divers were found dead in Maldives 'shark cave' as authorities release chilling new details
  • Experts say missing teen who jumped off cruise ship into ‘shark infested’ waters likely suffered concussion
  • WHO chief shares likelihood of hantavirus spreading as all cruise passengers removed from ship
  • US reveals plan to rescue 17 Americans stuck on board hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

Choose your content:

24 mins ago
an hour ago
  • Getty Stock Images
    24 mins ago

    How much $1 could buy the year you were born revealed

    In 1966, three gallons of gas were less than $1

    News
  • DAN Europe/ Facebook
    an hour ago

    Maldives diving tragedy may have been caused by ‘sand wall illusion’ as expert explains

    The divers who tragically died while exploring caves in the Maldives may have been tricked

    News
  • Mohamed Afrah / AFP via Getty Images
    an hour ago

    Rescuers wrote haunting four-word message during Maldives divers recovery mission in 'shark cave'

    Rescue divers left a haunting message as they descended into the Maldives cave that claimed the lives of an entire expedition

    News
  • Law&Crime Trials
    an hour ago

    Former inmates make bold claims about what Mackenzie Shirilla is really like in prison

    An ex-inmate at Ohio Prison said Mackenzie Shirilla was trying to be like Mean Girls' Regina George

    News