The first inhabitants of Great Stirrup Cay were the Lucayans, an Arawak-speaking Taino tribe who settled the Bahamian archipelago around 600 to 700 AD. In the 17th century, Great Stirrup Cay became a refuge for high-seas pirates, and was taken over by British slave traders in the early 1800s. The now-defunct Belcher Oil Company, a Miami-based petroleum distributor, then took possession of Great Stirrup Cay for oil exploration and as a potential corporate retreat that never came to be. Gordon’s complaint claims the Swimming Pigs Tour was “unreasonably dangerous, and/or was not competently operated by properly trained and/or supervised persons.” According to the complaint, Gordon would not have gone swimming with the pigs had he known about the possible health risks.