Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage



Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is an attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland that will open in summer 2007. It will use the submarine vehicles, track layout, and location used by the Submarine Voyage, which closed in 1998. It will be themed to the 2003 Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo.

It is the much larger sister attraction of The Seas with Nemo & Friends, an Omnimover ride at The Seas with Nemo & Friends Pavilion in Future World at Walt Disney World's Epcot.

History
For more information on the original attraction, see Submarine Voyage.

The Submarine Voyage, as it was originally called, opened on June 6, 1959. It featured eight "submarines" (actually submarine-shaped boats with the guest seating area below the water line), which sailed through Submarine Lagoon, past animatronic sea life, and simulated a trip under the polar ice cap. The attraction closed on September 9, 1998 after more than 39 years of operation.

After the attraction's closing, then-Disneyland president Paul Pressler promised a new attraction to replace the Submarine Voyage by 2003, and was long rumored to be based of Disney's 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but 2003 came and went with no new attraction, a year after Paul Pressler stepped down to become president of The Gap.

Finally, on July 15, 2005, two days before the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts president Jay Rasulo officially announced the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage at the newly-opened Turtle Talk with Crush attraction (which is also based on Finding Nemo) at Disney's California Adventure.