A popular influencer released a YouTube Short that was shot in Bermuda.

I Buried Treasure in the Bermuda Triangle has received more than six million views.

Its mastermind, James Stephen Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has 165 million subscribers on YouTube.

In the minute-long video, a seemingly random person is picked off the street by MrBeast to go on a treasure-hunting adventure in the Bermuda Triangle, leading him to $10,000 in gold hidden in the HMS Vixen wreck.

BDA Watersports, a local water sports equipment rental company, was involved in the production.

The project was set in motion after Harry Patchett, a jet-ski instructor at BDA Watersports, uploaded a photograph to the Bermuda Bound Facebook group.

“Next thing you know, one of his producers saw a post about the Vixen and Daniel’s Island. She said, ‘Is it possible to access the island? We’re making a short film’.

“We need somewhere we can bury treasure.”

The treasure hunt was complicated, featuring steps that were not shown in the reel itself. The hunt’s final clue required Sam, the participant in the video, to unearth a treasure chest at King’s Point, where the clue was hidden.

The gold hidden was real and worth $10,000, so a security guard had to remain at the HMS Vixen for three hours while the contestant was digging around looking for clues.

Mr Patchett: “We all had to sign a ten-page document not to talk about the reel before it was up.

“He takes it very seriously — the guy’s worth $125 million.

“The security guard who came down with him said he’d be a billionaire by the end of the year”.

Despite the 2½ days of filming, Mr Donaldson himself never visited Bermuda.