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The Seas with Nemo & Friends is a dark ride attraction which replaced Following the former Living Seas attraction end of United Technologies sponsorship in 2007. The Living Seas pavilion had originally included a movie theater1998, a dark ride (known as the Sea Cabs) and Seabase Alpha, which featured various aquamarine exhibits. After entering the Living Seas, guests would watch a preshow film titled began to decline in popularity <ref name= "The SeasMartin" before boarding their Sea Cabs and heading for the Seabase> https://www. While aboard their Sea Cabs, guests would travel through the pavilion's 5youtube.7 million gallon aquarium, before reaching their destinationcom/watch?v=wj6VD1bJEYs </ref>. The structure One of the pavilion remained unchanged until 2001 when the Sea Cab portion of the ride was discontinued. Although the track and Sea Cab's were still visible to guestspreshow theaters was closed in 1999, and this was followed by the closure of the SeaCab ride ceased to functionin October 2001 <ref name= "Martin"/>. Now, after watching the Sea's video (or skipping it altogether) guests were required to walk to Seabase Alpha. This change led In order to create a decline resurgence of interest in attendance for that the pavilion, which many guests referred Disney decided to as "The Dead Seas". Following United Technologies dropping of it's sponsorship, and tie the success of pavilion in with the popular Disney-Pixar movie film "Finding Nemo, it was decided that ". In December 2003 references to the film began appearing throughout the Living Seas pavilion would tie in with <ref name= "Martin"/>. This was followed by the movie. In 2004, addition of a new attraction was added to Seabase, titled, [[Turtle Talk with Crush]]on November 16, 2004<ref name= "Martin"/>. The new interactive show featuring Crush the Turtle proved to be so popular, that it was decided that the whole pavilion would receive Disney chose to create a new Finding Nemo theme. From 2004 through 2006, almost every part of omnimover attraction for the pavilion was renovated or removed<ref name= "Martin"/>. The exhibits in Seabase Alpha were changed to tie in with the the movieOn August 21, Turtle Talk with Crush was expanded, and 2005 the pavilions store, restaurant and color scheme were Living Seas completely changed. The final phase of the renovation came In 2005, when the pavilion was closed so that work could begin on a the new dark ride Nemo attractioncould be implemented<ref name= "Martin"/>.  The new attraction was originally referred to as titled "The Clamobile attraction", but it was eventually also titled, The Seas with Nemo & and Friends. To create " was constructed in the ride Imagineers used location that had previously housed one of the existing Sea Cab trackpavilion's preshow theaters, plus additional track added to the former location of Hydrolators, the holding areas and the queue for the old SeaCab attraction <ref name= "The SeasMartin" movie theater/>. The concept new attraction's queue replaced the Hydrolator portion of the attraction, was that guests would board their Clamobiles and follow Merlin and Dory . The removal of the third Hydrolator as they once again searched for Nemowell as the preshow theater allowed Imagineers to install 9 new dark ride scenes. To do this, characters from In order to extend the film are projected onto screensoriginal SeaCab track to these new scenes, which guests pass by in their "Clamobile"280 ft of additional track was installed. The SeaCabs themselves were replaced with "Clamobiles are in fact restructured Sea Cabs, which are now shaped like clams" that took guests through the story. [[Image:seasconcept.jpg|300px|thumb|Concept art for The Seas with Nemo & Friends.]]Imagineer Jerre Kirk oversaw the creation of the attraction, which features 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 attraction features the animated characters swimming with real marine life, in the pavilion's giant aquarium. To create this effect, Imagineers needed a new kind of projection technology. Disney had never projected animation into an aquarium before, but Research and Development Designer, Alfredo Ayala, came up with the new projection technology that allowed Disney to create the scene, using special effect glass<ref name= "explore"/>. After much trial and error with the new projectors, Imagineers were able to create the environment that they wanted<ref name= "explore"/>. The final scene also features Nemo and the rest of the characters singing "In the Big Blue World" which was taken from the [[Finding Nemo - The Musical]] attraction. Finally, on January 24, 2007 the Seas with Nemo and Friends was officially rededicated and opened to the public.