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.
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