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| name = The Seas with Nemo & Friends<br />
| park = [[EPCOT]]<br />
| land = World Nature<br />
| area = World Nature<br />
| type = Dark ride and aquarium pavilion<br />
| opened = January 24, 2007<br />
| designer = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]<br />
| status = Operating<br />
| replaced = The Living Seas<br />
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'''The Seas with Nemo & Friends''' is an ocean-themed pavilion in World Nature at [[EPCOT]] in [[Walt Disney World]], Florida. Centred on one of the largest saltwater aquariums in the United States, it combines a slow dark ride in clamshell vehicles, aquarium viewing areas presented as an undersea research base, the interactive [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] show, and a restaurant overlooking the tank. It first opened in 1986 as The Living Seas and was rethemed around the Pixar film ''Finding Nemo'' in the 2000s, keeping its marine life collection while adding a story aimed at families.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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An ocean pavilion had been planned for EPCOT early on, but it did not open with the park in 1982. The Living Seas opened on January 15, 1986, sponsored by United Technologies, which remained the sponsor until 1998. Its centrepiece was a tank holding about 5.7 million gallons of saltwater — at the time the largest saltwater tank in the world, a distinction it held until the Georgia Aquarium opened in 2005. Guests watched a preshow film, descended in fictional elevators called hydrolators that appeared to take them to the ocean floor, and rode Seacabs through the middle of the tank to SeaBase Alpha, the viewing and exhibit area. The Seacabs closed in 2001, although the aquarium and restaurant remained open.<br />
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Work to retheme the pavilion around ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) began in late 2003 in stages. The first major addition, [[Turtle Talk with Crush]], opened on November 16, 2004, and proved so popular that a larger theatre was planned. On August 21, 2005, The Living Seas closed completely for its transformation. The ride track was extended by about 280 feet through a former preshow theatre, the hydrolators were removed for an expanded queue, and the Seacabs were reshaped into clamshells and renamed Clamobiles.<br />
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The rethemed pavilion was rededicated on January 24, 2007, as The Seas with Nemo & Friends — the same day ''Finding Nemo – The Musical'' opened at [[Disney's Animal Kingdom]]. In the park's later reorganisation it became part of World Nature, and in 2019 new signage restored the original Living Seas wave logo.<br />
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== Experience ==<br />
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Guests can enter the pavilion either through the ride or directly into the aquarium areas. The dark ride follows a simple search story: Nemo has wandered off again, and riders join Marlin and Dory as they look for him. The Clamobiles pass through coral reef scenes where Mr. Ray is taking his class on an excursion, drift through a field of jellyfish, encounter an anglerfish in darker water, and reach a sunken submarine in a minefield where the shark Bruce and his friend Chum are trying to coax Nemo out of hiding, insisting that fish are friends, not food. Riders are then swept into the East Australian Current with Crush and Squirt.<br />
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The final part of the ride is its most distinctive. The vehicles pass alongside the pavilion's real main tank, and a projection system makes the animated characters appear to be swimming in the same water as the pavilion's actual fish, sharks and rays, before a musical finale built around the song "Big Blue World," adapted from the Animal Kingdom stage musical.<br />
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Unloading leads into SeaBase, the multi-level heart of the pavilion. Around the main tank's viewing windows guests can watch divers and thousands of animals, while smaller exhibits hold species that cannot live in the main tank, including seahorses and moray eels, and a separate habitat houses rescued manatees. The pavilion also contains [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] and the Coral Reef Restaurant, where diners sit beside the tank.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[EPCOT]]<br />
* [[Turtle Talk with Crush]]<br />
* [[Living with the Land]]<br />
* [[World Nature]]<br />
* [[Walt Disney World]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:EPCOT]]<br />
[[Category:Dark rides]]<br />
[[Category:Aquariums]]<br />
[[Category:2007 establishments]]</div>Admin