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🛝 Speed slide🏝️ Aquaventure, Atlantis Paradise Island

Leap of Faith

A nearly straight-down slide that ends in a clear tunnel THROUGH a lagoon full of sharks!A 60 ft near-vertical body slide ending in a clear tunnel through a shark lagoon; the original "shark slide". Cloned at Atlantis Dubai (2008, nine storeys, WhiteWater) and Atlantis Sanya (2018).

↕18 mtall
📅1998opened
📍🇧🇸Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas
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🏆Records & awards

  • The original shark-lagoon slide

📖Tell me more

The sharks can't get you, the tunnel is glass. Copies were built at Atlantis in Dubai and in China.

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Did you know?
It's the original "shark slide". The Dubai one is nine storeys tall.

📏How tall is 18 m?

🧒1.2 mYou🦒5.5 mGiraffe🏠8.0 mA house🛝18 mLeap of Faith

🗺️Where is it?

Aquaventure, Atlantis Paradise Island, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. Show on the World Slide Map →

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Sources: Guinness World Records, manufacturer and park announcements, Coasterpedia, Wikipedia, Blooloop and news reports; last reviewed September 2026. Spot an error?