The Seas with Nemo & Friends
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Above: The Seas with Nemo & Friends logo
Below: Entrance to the pavilion |
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| Epcot | |
| Area | Future World |
| Status | Operating |
| Soft opening date | 2007 |
| Opening date | January 24, 2007 |
| Replaced | The Living Seas |
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| Attraction type | Aquarium/Dark ride |
| Manufacturer | Montgomery Watson |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | Finding Nemo, Underwater exploration base |
| Site area | 185,000 sq ft (17,200 m2) |
| Capacity | 2,200 riders per hour |
| Vehicle type | Clam mobiles |
| Vehicles | 1 |
| Riders per vehicle | 2 |
| Rows | 1 |
| Tank size | 5,700,000 US gallons (22,000 m3), 793,000 US gallons (3,000 m3) kept in storage |
| Number of creatures | 8,500 |
| Construction time | 22 months |
| Audio-animatronics | Yes |
 Fastpass+ available |
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 Wheelchair accessible |
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 Must transfer from wheelchair |
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 Assistive listening available |
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 Closed captioning available |
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| The Living Seas | |
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Above: The Living Seas logo, now shown on the door to The Living Seas Conference Center
Below: Entrance to The Living Seas pavilion |
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| Epcot | |
| Area | Future World |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | January 15, 1986 |
| Closing date | August 21, 2005 |
| Replaced by | The Seas with Nemo & Friends |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Aquarium |
| Designer | WED Enterprises |
| Theme | Underwater exploration base |
| Music | George Wilkins and Russell Brower |
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Wheelchair accessible |
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Must transfer from wheelchair |
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Assistive listening available |
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Closed captioning available |
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The Seas with Nemo & Friends (formerly The Living Seas) is an aquarium and attached dark ride attraction in Future World at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. The attraction is themed as an underwater exploration base, with several exhibits devoted to oceanic study. The pavilion opened in 1986, but had been planned as part of the park since its opening in 1982.
The Living Seas opened to the public on January 15, 1986. It housed the largest saltwater tank in the world at its completion, holding 5.7 million US gallons (22,000 m3) of water, but was surpassed in 2005 with the opening of the Georgia Aquarium. The concept of the building was to take visitors under the ocean to "Sea Base Alpha". Guests viewed a short movie about the formation of the oceans entitled The Sea, which was followed by an elevator ride to the ocean floor aboard a "Hydrolator" (in reality, the floor merely shook and effects in the walls simulated downward motion). Guests then boarded a "Seacab" and traveled along an underwater tunnel through the aquarium at the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride. From there, guests rode around Sea Base Alpha and got an up-close view of the marine life. They then disembarked into the main exhibit area where they could interact with various multimedia displays.
The Living Seas was sponsored by United Technologies from its opening until 1998. After the departure of United Technologies as sponsor of The Living Seas, significant changes were made to the pavilion. All sponsorship references were removed from the pavilion. Additionally, one of the two preshow theaters was removed and was replaced with a walkway, allowing for guests to bypass the preshow if they wished to go directly to the Hydrolators.
In October 2001, the Seacabs closed down. The queue of the Seacab ride was left intact and the Seacabs were still visible to guests through the ocean tank windows. Reasons for their closure are not entirely known. After they closed, guests leaving the Hydrolators walked along a corridor to Sea Base Alpha. Now, guests had the option of viewing the preshow or going directly to the Hydrolators and simply walking to Sea Base Alpha.
In December 2003, Disney began to re-theme The Living Seas into a new pavilion based on the recently released Pixar film Finding Nemo. The majority of the transformation began with exterior elements, but in January 2004, the interior began to change as well. On November 16, 2004, Turtle Talk with Crush opened in what was once Module 1C, or the Earth Systems exhibit. The show's unexpected success overwhelmed the pavilion, causing the development of plans to move Turtle Talk with Crush to a larger area in the pavilion.
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