A homeless man from Las Vegas took a dip in Bellagio’s world-famous dance pool, where the water can be as deep as 13 feet, and ended up drowning.
The man, in his 40s, had been talking to himself on Friday before getting into the pool, swam downtown and then started fighting, the Associated Press reported.
A tourist jumped up to try to rescue the man, but “unfortunately he couldn’t get very far,” police Capt. Dori Koren told the Las Vegas Journal-Review. “It was too late when we responded.”
Divers from the Fire Department recovered the man’s body, which has not been identified.
Kayla Eklund, a 21-year-old college student from Michigan, called 911 while the other tourist jumped up to try to rescue him.
The man, he said, had swam to the middle of the pool, turned around and started fighting near where he jumped.
“He was staying in one place stepping on the water,” he told the Journal-Review. “She started yelling, ‘Help, help, help!'”
Koren reminded tourists not to swim in the many fountains. The Bellagio explicitly prohibits swimming in the pool.
“Please make sure you don’t jump for any reason,” he said.
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