U S. Coast Guard ends search for Louisiana teen who went overboard in the Bahamas

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This is the highest figure in the region, with Cuba in second with 13 and Puerto Rico in third with 11. "The possibility of survival decreases significantly, particularly if a person is not adorned with a life vest and particularly if they are perceived to have been intoxicated.

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Family of the Louisiana teen believed dead after he went overboard on a Bahamas cruise were photographed saying their final goodbyes to the teenage high school graduate. The 18-year-old "reportedly jumped from a pleasure vessel," the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement. Cameron Robbins, who attended University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge, was on a trip with a group of students when he went overboard on Wednesday night, according to school officials. A recent high school graduate from Louisiana is missing after going overboard while on a trip to the Bahamas, school officials and the United States Coast Guard said. "We offer our sincerest condolences to Cameron Robbins’ family and friends," Spado added.

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Cameron Robbins Video With Possible Shark in Water Viewed 10m Times

Many believe that a shark may have been involved, a theory that first emerged when an official with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force noted that the waters were "shark infested" while announcing the suspension of search efforts. Further complicating search efforts could be the fact that the continental shelf drops to approximately 30,000 feet just a few hundred meters east of where Cameron fell into the water. That deep drop in the sea floor in the area between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico is used by many experts to explain why people have previously gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The waters off Athol Island, where 18-year-old Cameron Robbins was last seen swimming after jumping off the Blackbeard’s Revenge sunset cruise on May 24, are “really shark-infested,” Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) Commodore Raymond King told the Daily Mail on Tuesday. The Louisiana high school graduate who disappeared after leaping off a cruise ship into dark waters off the Bahamas last week may have met a grisly fate in the “shark-infested” area, a local official said.

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The U.S. Coast Guard has ended their search for a Louisiana teenager who fell overboard from a sunset cruise in the Bahamas on Wednesday night. The video, which has so far been viewed more than 10 million times on Twitter, is being scrutinized, with some indicating the video allegedly shows the exact moment Robbins is pulled underneath the water by a shark after jumping off a cruise ship near Nassau, Bahamas. The small, pirate-lookalike cruise ship was anchored throughout the night, and the students were stuck at sea near the uninhabited island in what Royal Bahamas Defense Force Commodore Raymond King called "shark-infested waters." Footage has surfaced showing 18-year-old Cameron Robbins -- who'd just graduated high school in Baton Rouge -- swimming in the open seas at night near Athol Island last week ... Where he was on a sunset cruise with a bunch of his peers celebrating their achievement.

"The Bahamas government has called off the rescue for Cameron and we are returning to Baton Rouge," the family said in a statement. A viral video of a teenager who has gone missing appearing to jump overboard from a cruise ship may contain the last words he heard. The Coast Guard provided air assistance in the search and rescue mission, which was being led by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, according to Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Estrada.

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The party ship remained in the area for several hours while the crew looked for Robbins. As for tiger sharks, which are known to swim in the waters off Athol Island, “they can take a very large chunk,” Hendricks said. Butch Hendrick, president and founder of public safety dive training company Lifeguard Systems, has spent decades familiarizing himself with the Caribbean waters, including off the Bahamas. Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground. The International Shark Attack File, a database of all known shark attacks, shows that only 32 shark attacks have been reported in the Bahamas since 1949.

Cameron had just returned from a weekend fishing trip on the Louisiana Gulf Coast with his dad and brother before embarking on the post-graduation cruise aboard a ship called Blackbeard’s Revenge. Robbins, 18, was last seen jumping into shark-infested waters in the Bahamas on May 24 while on a pirate-themed “booze cruise” with hundreds of other newly minted high-school grads in May. The Coast Guard called off its own search two days later, after reportedly scouring over 325 square miles. Cameron Robbins, 18, graduated from University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge in May and was on a trip to the Bahamas with students from several local high schools. Grainy cellphone footage shows recent Louisiana high school graduate Cameron Robbins swimming in Bahamian waters at night, but as the camera pans left for a second, he disappears — never to be seen again. Kevin George, the director of the school, told local news outlet WBRZ that Robbins was a "special kid."

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“We’ve consulted with oceanography and fisheries experts,” said Brian Trascher, vice president and spokesperson for the United Cajun Navy, a nonprofit that has worked with the Robbins family. “They don’t believe … that he came in contact with any type of shark or predatory marine life. Robbins graduated from the University Lab School in Baton Rouge three days before he vanished in the “shark-infested” waters off Athol Island.

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George described Robbins as a "great kid" and athlete who had been with the school for 13 years, since the start of his education. Video purporting to show Cameron in the water emerged four days later, first appearing on TMZ, which speculated that he had been dared to jump overboard without providing evidence or a source for that information. "When he jumped into the water, he could have hit his head on the boat," says swim safety expert Jim Spears. "He could have hit his head on the water, like slapping the water with his head. Either way could cause dizziness, a concussion or confusion." Officials were unable to locate Cameron Robbins or his remains despite an intense 48-hour search led by the Defence Force, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard assisted the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in search efforts by deploying aircrews. The Royal Bahamas Police Force is investigating claims that Robbins jumped overboard as part of a dare, according to WBRZ. “We offer our sincerest condolences to Cameron Robbins’ family and friends," Spado said. Robbins was in the Bahamas staying at the Atlantis Paradise resort in Nassau with other teenagers from Baton Rouge to mark their high school graduations, Louisiana State University confirmed Thursday. The haunting video footage shows Robbins swimming away from a rescue buoy as onlookers shout for him to grab the device. 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.

Several others could be heard shouting to him that he's swimming away from a buoy which would have helped keep him afloat in the sea. The footage also contains the last words that Cameron may have heard before going missing that night on 24 May. After Coast Guard crews searched more than 325 square miles, they concluded their efforts with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force on 27 May. For several days, the Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defence Force searched the location and waters surrounding the location Mr Robbins had disappeared in using aircrews and search patterns. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force contacted the US Coast Guard, District Seven around 11.30pm local time to report Mr Robbins had fallen overboard, according to a statement from the Coast Guard.

"U.S. Coast Guard District Seven deployed multiple search and rescue assets in response to an agency assistance request from our partners in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force," said Lt. Commander Matthew Spado, Coast Guard liaison officer to the Bahamas. "Our Coast Guard command center and aircrews based in Miami supported RBDF search and rescue efforts since the initial report Wednesday evening, and continued through Friday evening." The U.S. Coast Guard has ended their search for a Louisiana teenager who went overboard during a sunset cruise in the Bahamas on Wednesday night. The high school baseball standout graduated from Baton Rouge's U-High on May 21, and his last posts on Instagram include pictures of him surrounded by his family and friends. "US Coast Guard District Seven deployed multiple search and rescue assets in response to an agency assistance request from our partners in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force,” Lt Commander Mathew Spado, Coast Guard liaison officer to the Bahamas said in the statement.