Bahamas safety reports

Cruise lawyer warns about parasite exposure during pig-swim excursions

A May 10, 2025 video from the cruiseshiplawyer account advises travelers against swimming with pigs and raises concerns about exposure to animal waste. Its caption also questions whether cruise passengers receive adequate warnings before booking.

This is a lawyer’s public commentary, not an official health alert, a laboratory-confirmed outbreak or a court ruling against a cruise line. It should not be counted as a separate confirmed illness incident. Open the original video to hear the argument and distinguish it from the personal illness accounts linked elsewhere in this archive.

Visitor describes a hand injury when pigs crowded around food on the beach

A traveler’s May 24, 2022 TripAdvisor review describes seeing a visitor bitten on the hand during a feeding encounter earlier that month. The reviewer says people had brought food onto the beach without seeing warning signs, and that a large pig swallowed a snack bag before the encounter became chaotic. They also describe seeing animal waste in the water.

This is the reviewer’s eyewitness account, not a medical record. The injured visitor’s outcome and tour operator are not established. The review is linked directly so readers can see the original account, including its concerns for both visitors and the pigs.

Travel writer describes large pigs, floating waste and welfare concerns

After an Exuma half-day tour, the writer says the pig stop did not match the images that had drawn her there. She describes large animals approaching for food, visible waste in the water and concerns about some pigs’ skin condition. She chose not to put her face in the water. Those are observations and impressions from her visit, not veterinary diagnoses or water-test findings. The article also includes her own photographs and explains that weather had canceled the longer tour.

Source: Chasing A. Sun, August 18, 2018.

CDC travel guidance: food, drinking water and animal-contact precautions

CDC’s Bahamas traveler page links advice on safe food and drinks, avoiding contaminated water and staying safe around animals. Its water guidance includes not swallowing swimming water, following beach warnings and using life jackets for boating. It also advises avoiding unfamiliar animals and contact with animal waste. This is preventive travel-health guidance, not an announcement of a pig-beach outbreak or a finding that a named restaurant or resort is contaminated.

Official CDC source checked September 20, 2026.

Paid pig-photo lines instead of a swim, CocoCay guest says

A March 2024 visitor says the excursion felt more like waiting to hold pigs for paid photographs than swimming with them. The couple paid about $265 and were disappointed by restrictions on personal photos and an additional photo charge. They also describe pigs defecating in the water and staff removing the waste. Those observations do not establish a tested water-quality violation or resulting illness.

Source: Reddit review of a Royal Caribbean CocoCay-area excursion.

Illness after a pig swim and animal-care concerns in a Rose Island versus Freeport discussion

One participant describes fever, a headache and a severe UTI after swimming with pigs. Others question whether pigs at some Grand Bahama attractions are confined and coaxed into the water. These are different accounts in a discussion comparing Rose Island with Freeport, not a single incident. The thread does not establish the cause of the illness or identify one responsible operator.

Source: Reddit public discussion.

Cloudy water, nipping pigs and rough stingray handling at Great Stirrup Cay

“The pigs will also nip at you if you’ve got food (which they give you to feed them).”

The visitor describes seeing a pig with diarrhea, cloudy water and staff collecting waste. At the stingray stop, they say guides held the animals at the surface for paid photos and restrained them when they struggled. They also say personal photos and videos were restricted. These are the visitor’s observations from the original Reddit post, not water-test results or a confirmed infection.

Source: Reddit public post.

Shortened pig tour, rude guides and dirty-water concerns at Goat Cay

The visit felt much shorter than advertised, according to this guest’s one-star review. They described rude guides, belongings left unattended and pigs that looked unhappy. They were also concerned about dirty water around the animals. The review describes what the guest saw and felt; it does not provide water-test results.

Source: Google review aggregate.

Pig bites and dirty-water concerns come up in travelers’ excursion discussion

Travelers in this discussion describe pigs getting aggressive around visitors, a guest being bitten and concerns about dirty conditions. Some also worry about infections after contact with the water. These are separate comments about different trips, not one person’s account or a confirmed outbreak. The comments do not consistently identify an operator.

Source: Reddit public discussion.