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Continuing to tinker with the pavilion, eventually, Imagineers cut the large entrance hall between the Poseidon show and the omnimovers. Furthermore, the ride path the the omnimovers would take was changed so that instead of going straight through the pavilion's massive tank, the ride vehicles now went around its circumference before entering and exiting through the central viewing module.
By the end of 1980 plans for The Seas pavilion still changing. At this point the omnimover ride was shortened and theme the tone became completely more scientific. In the 1980 book Walt Disney's Epcot Center, the Seas pavilion is described:
{{Quotation| "Visitors to The Seas pavilion will explore the wonders of the aquatic frontier through two major presentations. First, "The World of the Sea," a ride-thru experience presenting various ocean environments; and second, "Sea Base Alpha," a futuristic undersea research station complete with a 5,000,000-gallon tank supporting a living coral reef community." <ref name= "intercot"> http://www.intercot.com/edc/LivingSeas/lsconstr.html </ref>}}
When EPCOT Center opened on October 1, 1982, The Seas TheSeas pavilion was nowhere to be found. Instead, an empty large plot of land could be found in Future World West, with a sign that announced that The Living Seas would be opening in 1984. Despite this promise, Disney had yet to find a sponsor for the pavilion. This changed however on July 20, 1983 when United Technologies agreed to sponsor the 90 million dollar pavilion.
[[Image:Seas2.jpg|400px|thumb|Early concept art for The Living Seas pavilion.]]
Between 1980 and 1982, the tone of The Seas had clearly changed. Gone was the fantasy elements of the pavilion's designs, as the focus of The Seas shifted completely to the scientific, with an exclusive emphasis on the SeasBase portion of the pavilion the 1982 book EPCOT Center: Creating the World of Tomorrow, notes that while in The Living Seas ride guests would see:
{{Quotation| The environment, designed to look like a futuristic sea base, is an actual working environment in which man and machine coexist with the sea and its original inhabitants. All around us, we see diver’s carrying on their tasks, often accompanied by their coworkers, the dolphins, trained to work alongside man.| EPCOT Center: Creating the World of Tomorrow }}
With United Technologies now sponsoring the pavilion, the final layout of The Living Seas began to take shape. At this time, the Poseidon preshow and the long dark ride attraction (which United Technologies was unwilling to pay for) were removed. Instead, guests would now enter the pavilion and watch a short preshow video. After this, they would take a short trip through the pavilion's aquarium before arriving at SeaBase Alpha. After a series of setbacks, construction on The Living Seas began in March of 1984, and the pavilion opened to the public on January 15, 1986.
===The Living Seas Presented By United Technologies (1986-1998)===
