When The Living Seas opened, it featured three connected attractions, and the Coral Reef Restaurant. After winding their way through the queue (where guests could see historical artifacts from the history of sea exploration), guests watched a short film called The Seas. This movie, showed how water made life possible on earth, and also how our understanding of the seas have developed. After watching the short film, guests entered the hydrolators, which were elevators that took guests "down" to the ocean floor (although in actuality they did not move anywhere), before they were loaded into their Sea Cabs for the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride. The Caribbean Coral Reef Ride took guests through the ocean's depths (the Coral Reef Tank) in omnimover fashion, to Sea Base Alpha. Once at Sea Base Alpha, guests could explore various interactive exhibits that allowed them to learn about marine life, and the technology that makes underwater research possible. From Sea Base Alpha, guests could also look out into the various tanks. After exploring Sea Base Alpha, guests could enter another set of hydrolators and exit the pavilion.
===The Living Seas (1998-2006)===
Aside from minor changes to Sea Base Alpha, the Living Seas remained essentially unchanged until 1998 when United Technologies ended their sponsorship of the pavilion. With the end of United Technologies sponsorship, all references to the company were removed from the pavilion by the end of 1999. At this time, one of the two preshow theaters was also closed, in order to allow returning guests to skip the film altogether and move directly to the hydrolators. Subsequently, in 2002 the Sea Cab portion of the pavilion closed, with guests now walking from the Hydrolators, past the non-functioning Sea Cabs, and into Sea Base Alpha (of note is the fact that the SeaCabs remained intact after being discontinued, they were just boarded up).
With no sponsor, and a decrease in popularity, Disney decided that the Living Seas needed a new tone. In order to increase the pavilion’s popularity, Disney began to tie the popular 2003 film Finding Nemo into the exhibits in Sea Base Alpha. As part of this new tie in, in 2004 Modules 1C and 1D were closed to the public. When they reopened, the featured Bruce’s Shark World (in 1D) and a new attraction [[Talk with Crush]] (in 1C). Turtle Talk With Crush was an interactive show that featured Disney's newest technology, "digital puppetry"- which allowed guests to talk and interact with Crush the turtle from Finding Nemo. The new show proved to be extremely popular, quickly becoming the biggest draw in the Living Seas pavilion, and causing Sea Base Alpha to be overwhelmed by the crowds. Due to this unexpected popularity, Disney decided to rethemed the entire Living Seas pavilion, and on August 21, 2005 the pavilion was closed.