Neatorama » water slide http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Shark Commits Suicide on Water Slide http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/shark-commits-suicide-on-water-slide/ http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/shark-commits-suicide-on-water-slide/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:44:54 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=21529 A shark at at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas jumped out of its seawater enclosure onto a nearby water slide and slid down into the swimming pool! No one was in the pool Tuesday morning when it happened.

“Yesterday morning at around 9:30 AM, prior to the resort’s waterscape opening to guests, a 12+-year-old female reef shark jumped over an 18 inch wide and 1 foot high sustaining structure into the resort’s Leap of Faith water slide.

The Atlantis Aquarists believe the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat …

The aquarium staff immediately retrieved the shark from the pool, but the chlorinated water had already poisoned the fish. She died shortly after. Link -via Simply Left Behind

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