The Seas With Nemo & Friends is an attraction located in [[Epcot]]. If you are looking for the pavilion which houses the attraction see: [[The Seas with Nemo & Friends]].
==Attraction History==
Following The creation of The Seas with Nemo & Friends attraction came about as part of a larger overhaul of The Living Seas Pavilion. Since the late 1990s, the pavilion had seen a sharp decrease in popularity, and the end lost of sponsor United Technologies sponsorship . In order to boost the popularity of the pavilion, follow in 1998December 2003, Disney began to tie the popular animated characters from the 2003 Disney-Pixar movie "Finding Nemo" into The Living Seas began to decline . While this integration originally took place mostly in popularity the pavilion's gift shop, exterior and in some of the SeaBase Alpha exhibits, a larger change was coming <ref name= "MartinMartin2"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj6VD1bJEYs </ref>. SubsequentlyIn 2004, one of Module 1C and Module 1D in Sea Base alpha closed. When the pavilionmodules reopened on November 16, 2004 they featured two new Finding Nemo based exhibits- "Bruce's preshow theaters was closed Shark World" (in 1999, Module 1D) and this was followed by the closure of the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride a new attraction [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] (which took guests through the Coral Reef Aquarium in the SeaCabsModule IC) in October 2001 <ref name= "Martinbook"/>. In order to create a resurgence of interest in the pavilionPedersen, Disney decided to tie The Living Seas in with the popular Disney-Pixar film "Finding Nemo"R. A. In December 2003 references to the film began appearing throughout The Living Seas pavilion EPCOT Explorer's Encyclopedia:. United States: Epcyclopedia, 2011. Print. </ref name= "Martin"/>. This While Bruce's Shark World was followed by the addition of a new attraction [[playground for younger guests, Turtle Talk with With Crush]] on November 16was an interactive show that featured Disney's newest technology, 2004<ref name= "Martindigital puppetry"/>. The new show featuring Looking through an arcylric window, on Turtle Talk with Crush, guests could talk and interact with Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo. The new show proved to be so popular that Disney chose decided to create a new Finding integrate Nemo omnimover attraction for into the entire Living Seas pavilion<ref name= "Martin"/>. On In order to do this, on August 21, 2005 The Living Seas completely the whole pavilion closed so to the new Nemo attraction could be implementedpublic<ref name= "MartinMartin2"/>.
The When creating a new attraction titled "The Seas with Nemo & Friends" was constructed in the location that had previously housed one of for the pavilion's preshow theaters, Imagineers decided to reuse the Hydrolators, track from the holding areas, and the queue for the old closed Caribbean Coral Reef Ride<ref name= "Martin"/>(also known as the SeaCabs). The new This onmnimover attractionhad originally transported guest's queue replaced from the Hydrolator portion of pavilion's preshow area, through the attraction5. The removal of the third Hydrolator as well as the preshow theater allowed Imagineers 8 million gallon Caribbean Coral Reef Aquarium, and to install nine new dark ride scenesSea Base Alpha. In order to extend create the new attraction however, Imagineers needed more track. To do this, they extended the original Caribbean Coral Reef Ride track into these new scenes, 280 ft of additional track was installedfeet. The SeaCabs themselves Seas with Nemo & Friends (as the attraction would be called) now took up the area that previously housed The Living Seas' first preshow theater, holding area, Hydrolators and queue for the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride. Finally, the old SeaCab ride vehicles were repurposed and turned into the "Clamobiles" that take guests through the new attraction's storyThe Seas with Nemo & Friends.
Imagineer Jerre Kirk oversaw the creation of the The Seas with Nemo & Friends, which featured cutting edge technology. The first three scenes in the attraction are set in a coral reef. To create this environment, Imagineers used "very thin castings of fiberglass", which had never been done before <ref name= "explore"> https://www.explorethemagic.com/forums/47-current-attractions-and-updates/5638-the-seas-with-nemo-friends.html </ref>. The final scene in The Seas with Nemo & Friends features the animated characters swimming with real marine life in the pavilion's Coral Reef Aquarium. To create this effect, Imagineers needed a new kind of projection technology. Disney had never projected animation into an aquarium before, however Research and Development Designer Alfredo Ayala came up with the new projection technology that allowed Disney to insert the characters into the tank using special effect glass <ref name= "explore"/>. According to WDI Vice President Kathy Mangum:
