A shark has accidentally killed itself after leaping from its tank at an aquarium, sliding down a water slide and into a chlorine pool.
The female reef shark managed to clear the 45cm wide, 30cm high barrier at Mayan Temple's Leap of Faith slide at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas, website TMZ reports.
The accident happened just hours before the pool opened to swimmers on Tuesday.
A statement from the hotel said the 12-year-old shark died as a result of the pool's chlorinated water.
The [rescue] team was able to retrieve the animal at the bottom of the slide and return the animal to the main marine habitat in an attempt to resuscitate her," the statement read.
"Despite the team's best efforts to recover the animal, it died shortly after the occurrence.
"There was no danger to our guests or staff.
"Our concern was for the animal itself who defied nature to take this leap."
It is unclear why the shark jumped out of its tank.
The hotel said there had never been any other incidents like it in the 10 years since the slide opened.
The 18m slide begins with a near vertical drop and travels through an underground tunnel which is submerged in a shark-filled lagoon.
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