Shark Suicide

Reader Comments

• 16. awww ... poor baby shark, it's not his fault he didn't know. ~ :o(

  Posted at 9:25AM on 8th 2009 by cutie

• 17. f that what about the girl coming down behind it sssssshit

  Posted at 8:21AM on 8th 2009 by melissa

• 18. This is really horrible. It's not the shark's fault any more than any animal is "at fault" when the person or persons caring for them have failed to supervise them properly. To whomever said it was the shark's fault, I bet you're the jerk who lets his dog crap all over someone else's yard and doesn't clean it up. As to water parks treating their animals well, Sea World kills over one third of its cetaceans. You wouldn't believe how many Shamus they've went through. Beluga whales. Dolphins. I'm sick and tired of how our stupid species puts other species into tanks/cages that are too small, not made well, or just plain not up to par. The park should have been found guilty of animal neglect. Matter of fact, this legally constitutes animal neglect, as the animal escaped its environment successfully. Really, I hope the park is fined heavily. Assholes.

  Posted at 12:53AM on 5th 2009 by darlean

• 19. I'm there a lot and those sharks and other sea life are very well taken care of. The fact that this happened is very very rare and probably will never happen again. Atlantis does EVERYTHING to ensure the safety of their guests and sea creatures. I will go down the "Leap of Faith" ( the slide the Blacktip Reef Shark ended up in) again. It's a blast!!

  Posted at 7:58PM on 3rd 2009 by lisa

• 20. The only good shark is a dead shark, anyways. They're nothing more than scavenging, vicious eating machines, the terror of the seas. Think of a buzzard and a T-Rex, all rolled into one (not that big a jump, when you know where birds came from), and you've go yer average shark. I wouldn't shed the first tear if every one of them disappeared from the face of the Earth today, along with poisonous snakes, jackals, and aggressive stinging insects like the hornet and Africanized Honeybee. And the Mosquito. The damn Mosquito.

  Posted at 6:27PM on 3rd 2009 by Mike

• 21. Holy $%*! i was just there like a week ago! Thats too bad for the shark.

  Posted at 5:21PM on 2nd 2009 by Erin

• 22. what happend to the !?#@$ poor shark

  Posted at 10:48PM on 31st 2008 by no 1

• 23. What a horrible way to die....I imagine it would be like sufficating or drowning to us...clorine probably burned that poor sharks whole body like fire!I do feel sorry for these poor creatures held in captivity!! We need to let them be, sharks are ment to live in the ocean and swim and explore endlessly until they die, not to be put on display for our viewing pleasure!!

  Posted at 3:50PM on 31st 2008 by saddad

• 24. umm,, seriously people,, its just a SHARK! calm down,, it was the sharks fault for getting on the slide anyways,, people are crazy about animal cruelty and talking about "animals being held hostage" and "what would happen if we were held hostage"..? wtf? it was a reef shark and people need to chill out, things happen!! but this would have been sccary, glad i wasnt there! :)

  Posted at 10:27AM on 29th 2008 by momo

• 25. omg...i am sooooooo srry i wasnt there...i left atlantis on the 14th...shux!!!

  Posted at 1:07PM on 26th 2008 by Schae Harrison

• 26. i am very sad that i was not there this weekend because i go once a month. if i was there though i would have been a richer man then i was today. i would of been in the water as soon as i seen the shark in there and then weeks later the atlantis would soon be called BOSS!

  Posted at 8:52PM on 24th 2008 by BOSS

• 27. the slide was temporarily closed, so no human being could have been there, and NO a person cannot fall into their side of the tank because its closed off, the sharks have separate sleeves they can go in, it made a hole and fell, then sadly died, DO RESEARCH BEFORE POSTING

  Posted at 5:24PM on 23rd 2008 by taryn

• 28. I have been on this ride as well, the slide your in is in the shark tank, sharks could easily jump into our part of the slide, they either rest atop the slide where we are or swim underneath. I was terrified when i went on it because i am terrified of sharks, but this shark was obviously sick because with all the times i went on, nothing like this ever happened.

  Posted at 5:14PM on 23rd 2008 by Taryn

• 29. If you look it up this type of shark is actually known to jump out of the water... obviously something spooked it, seeing as the shark tank is so close to the water slide, it does make sense... unfortunately sea life cannot survive in chlorinated water...

  Posted at 6:39PM on 22nd 2008 by danielle

• 30. #5...lol...you're killing me. Nah, I'm not on that website...on account of being DEAD.

  Posted at 4:34PM on 22nd 2008 by The shark