From ABC4.com: A shark managed to jump out of its aquarium and onto a water slide at a hotel swimming pool used by guests. No one was in the pool at the time. The female reef shark leapt over the one foot high barrier and slid down the slide known as the Leap of Faith at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.
Slide goes in the water?
You go in the water.
Shark's in the water.
Sadly the pool chlorine and the shark didn't mix and the reef shark died shortly thereafter... but I can only hope that when it is my time to go, it is via a waterslide.
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While I confess to being very ignorant about the jumping powers of reef sharks, "one foot high barrier" hardly sounds like a barrier at all. o_O
Posted by: Zelly | December 23, 2008 1:28 AM
I am a huge douche and my commentary has jumped the shark.
Posted by: Jason Failes | December 23, 2008 10:39 AM
The shark has jumped the blog.
Posted by: william e emba | December 23, 2008 1:26 PM
"I can only hope that when it is my time to die, it is via waterslide" is such a cool quote.
Posted by: Jeb, FCD | December 23, 2008 7:31 PM
1' barrier??? That's all? Poor sharky. What a way to go!
Posted by: Mimi | December 27, 2008 7:51 AM
That shark went out in a blaze of glory!
Mixter
Posted by: Mixter | December 28, 2008 12:16 PM
Hmmmm.
I don't think the inclusion of a live reef shark in a =water slide= is going to be all that popular.
Frankly as I have a deathly fear of sharks if I had happened to be in the slide at the same time ... there would have to be a seriously clean up effort afterwards.
Posted by: memomachine | January 1, 2009 12:28 PM
At least it got to ride a water-slide before it died.-_- X_X Chlorine purifies everything so much it's poisonous.
Posted by: Ilovemyfuzzies | January 5, 2009 11:22 PM
Last time at Atlantis I tried to think of excuses for not going down that slide, chickening out...thanks, now I have the perfect excuse!!
Posted by: Ileana | January 7, 2009 8:04 PM
I was da 1 who told d
Posted by: JOE JONASa lifeguard | January 19, 2009 2:42 PM
This story is an urban legend. Sorry folks.
Posted by: Wendy | February 20, 2009 10:22 AM
Wendy is an urban legend. Sorry Wendy, but thanks for playing:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/hotelhotsheet/2008/12/shark-slides-in.html
http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/18/shark-commits-suicide-on-waterslide/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3849256/Shark-jumps-out-of-aquarium-into-swimming-pool.html
Posted by: Andrew B | February 20, 2009 10:54 AM
Wendy,
This isn't an "urban legend". I was at Atlantis 2 days ago, and there is now a large net covering the opening to the slide. We asked why the net, and a marine biologist told us it was due to the incident of them losing a shark a few months ago. Actually, while we were standing there, as someone went down the slide and through the acrylic tube in the lagoon, one of the reef sharks got startled and jumped about a foot out of the water (luckily no where near the edge). So, yes, this did happen.
Posted by: Aron | March 20, 2009 5:44 PM
Frankly as I have a deathly fear of sharks if I had happened to be in the slide at the same time ...
Posted by: neon | April 11, 2009 9:24 AM
This story is an urban legend. Sorry folks.Frankly as I have a deathly fear of sharks if I had happened to be in the slide at the same time ... there would have to be a seriously clean up effort afterwards.
Posted by: neon | April 11, 2009 9:35 AM
how did it work
Posted by: sheriden | June 10, 2009 7:07 AM
awsome! i sooooooooo want to go!!!!!!!
Posted by: Katy Davies | September 15, 2009 7:05 AM