Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage - The Voyage

The Voyage

At the attraction's entrance, guests enter the Nautical Exploration and Marine Observation (NEMO) research center. Three seagulls, perched on a nearby buoy, cry out "Mine! Mine! Mine!" every minute. Guests board one of NEMO's eight research submarines and set out in search of an active underwater volcano. Through their portholes, guests see a spectacular underwater environment. One of the first things guests see is Darla, the evil fish-killing niece of the dentist in Finding Nemo, freediving amid the coral, holding a plastic bag with fish she has captured.

As the journey continues, guests see a giant sea bass swimming through a seaweed forest. The submarines then enter the ruins of an ancient civilization, which are being explored by the dentist scuba diver P. Sherman from Finding Nemo. Among the ruins lies a gigantic tiki head, embedded in the ocean floor. The subs then enter a coral reef with many bright reflective colors. Giant clams slowly open and close as the submarines pass. The captain commands the sub to dive much deeper to avoid a surface storm ahead.

At this point the "sub" travels through a waterfall and enters the hidden ride building, where guests find themselves moving through what appear as underwater caverns. The captain announces that, due to an amazing new marine technology called "sonar hydrophones" (an homage to the original attraction), they can actually hear the fish talk. The subs pass through a dark cavern where huge eels lunge toward the submarine and lobsters are fighting. The subs pass Nemo characters Marlin and Dory as they discover that Nemo has gotten lost again. Farther along the reef, guests encounter Mr. Ray and his class swimming through the coral looking for Nemo as well. The captain announces that the sub is approaching open water, and Crush, Squirt, and the other green turtles characters appear to enter the East Australian Current.

The sub then exits the current and enters a spooky graveyard of sunken ships, where Marlin and Dory continue their search for Nemo. Bruce, Anchor and Chum swim inside a sunken U-Boat surrounded by World War II mines. The submarine "hits" a mine, causing it to shake and temporarily lose power. As the sub goes dark, Marlin and Dory are surrounded by small glowing spots, which turn out to be phosphorescent dots on a huge deep-sea anglerfish. After Marlin and Dory escape the monster, they make their way through a forest of jellyfish.

The submarine reaches the active deep-sea volcano. The Tank Gang chants as lava flows down the volcano's sides. Marlin finally finds Nemo and has a joyful reunion. The volcano erupts just as the sub escapes and returns to the reef. The fish gather and celebrate finding Nemo once again. Suddenly, a pod of humpback whales appears, and one of them swallows both Dory and the submarine. Dory swims about trying to "speak whale"; then the whale shoots the submarine out through its blowhole.

The sub's captain tells the first mate and passengers not to mention what has happened because "nobody would believe them anyway". He then says, "We'd better take her up before we run into a sea serpent or a mermaid" (references to the original attraction, which featured four mermaids and a gigantic sea serpent). Two coral formations then appear, one shaped like a sea serpent's head, and the other shaped like a swimming mermaid. The sub then reenters the harbor, where a pair of king crabs snap at air bubbles coming from a sewage pipe. An instrumental version of "Beyond the Sea" plays as the captain thanks the passengers for riding. Each voyage lasts approximately 15 minutes.