The waters where Louisiana teen Cameron Robbins vanished after jumping off a “pirate ship” are within the Bermuda Triangle — a notorious region where countless people, ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared.
Robbins, 18, of Baton Rouge, was enjoying a sunset cruise in the waters off Athol Island in the Bahamas just north of its capital, Nassau, on May 24 when he leaped from the vessel Blackbeard’s Revenge.
Haunting video footage shows Robbins swimming away from a rescue buoy as onlookers shout for him to grab the device.
Online viewers have speculated they could see flashes of shark-like sea creature in the video and Robbins was trying to get away from it. A second later, he disappeared under the surface.
The US Coast Guard spent days looking for any sign of Robbins, but the search was called off after scouring over 325 square miles and finding no trace of him or his possessions.
The stretch of ocean in the western part of the North Atlantic where Robbins vanished is part of the Bermuda Triangle — also known as the mysterious Devil’s Triangle — between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.
Encompassing an area of 440,000 square miles, the triangle is where various vessels both large and small and planes have inexplicably vanished without a trace, leading to the loss of thousands of lives according to MarineInsight.com.
The triangle is a notoriously difficult area to navigate, with rough seas and a number of extreme weather patterns.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “the majority of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes pass through the Bermuda Triangle.”
“The stories around the Bermuda Triangle begin in Christopher Columbus’s time when he reportedly saw a flame of fire crashing into the sea in the triangle during his first voyage to the New World,” according to the site.
One of the theories for the disappearances is that electromagnetic interference messes up compasses.
“This theory claims that there is a very high pull of the earth’s natural magnet, which redirects the compass and other sophisticated equipment, and disallows them to take their intended route through the waters,” MarineInsight.com says.
Famous losses in its waters include the British sailing vessel Atalanta in 1880, which set sail from Bermuda for England and has never been seen again, nor recovered.
The USS Cyclops similarly disappeared without a trace in 1918 after setting sail from Barbados, losing 309 crewmembers.
In 2015 the SS El Faro vessel sank off the coast of the Bahamas during a hurricane.
In December 1945, fourteen airmen were lost from Flight 19, a group of five Grumman TBF Avenger military aircraft and another 13 airmen on the same day in another plane that was searching for them.
In 1948 and 1949 two civilian aircraft were lost over the triangle resulting in a loss of 59 lives. Numerous smaller pleasure aircraft have been lost over the triangle as late as 2021.
Meteorologists have also studied weather patterns and identified how hexagonal clouds, “between 20 and 55 miles” form over the triangle, which lead to 170-mph “air bombs” which are capable of taking down aircraft and ships.
“These types of hexagonal shapes in the ocean are in essence air bombs,” Meteorologist Randy Cerveny, Ph.D. told Science Channel show “What on Earth?” explaining: “They’re formed by what is called microbursts and they’re blasts of air.”
Despite numerous theories, the US Coast Guard and other official bodies insist there is nothing unusual about the Bermuda Triangle and it remains a high-traffic area of vessels and planes.
The NOAA states: “There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean.”
Robbins’ family initially traveled to the Bahamas and assisted in the meticulous search for him, according to Brian Trascher, vice president of the search-and-rescue nonprofit group United Cajun Navy, but they eventually flew home.
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