You can swim, but you can't hide.

A Florida man who swam to a small island and hid after allegedly attacking his girlfriend with a vodka bottle was arrested when police sailed to the island and found him camping in a tent, police said.

Recently released bodycam footage shows the moment on June 23 when officers in Port Orange, south of Daytona Beach, drove out to the island along the Intracoastal Waterway to confront Jeriel Joiner.

Joiner had previously called police and asked them to arrest him, police said.

After searching the islands just inland from the Atlantic Ocean, they found Joiner sleeping in a green tent and ordered him to keep his hands up while they opened the tent.

“What’s the problem?” Joiner – who was shirtless and wearing only boxer shorts – asked repeatedly as officers handcuffed him and led him to the police boat.

The victim, whose name was not released, told police that Joiner hit her in the eye with a vodka bottle and strangled her while they were on the beach.

“He said the devil wanted him to kill me,” she recalls.

Police found that passersby rushed to stop Joiner and attempted to detain him before he managed to escape and swim away.

“Jeriel Joiner hit his girlfriend on the head with a bottle of vodka and then strangled her by placing his hands around her neck,” police said in a statement.

“Joiner then further strangled his girlfriend by placing a rope around her neck. Joiner's girlfriend also reportedly broke an arm in the incident,” the department added.

After fleeing the scene, police received a call from Joiner saying he had “beat up his old lady. Come get me.”

Joiner was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence by strangulation and aggravated assault.