Deep Sea the Ride

QUICK FACTS

• This Special Venue RideFilm™ attraction has been in production for over 2 years.
  
  
• Over 180,000 work hours and over 480,000 computing hours were spent creating this film.
  
  
• Over 1.8 million megabytes of data were generated during production.
  
  
• Some of the subjects of this film have never been seen alive, making rendering them realistically a great challenge.
  
  
• More is known about dinosaurs and how they behaved 65 million years ago than most species living in the deep sea today.
  
  
• The creatures represented in the film include: seven species of fish, three species of jellyfish, one species of whale, two species of cephalopods and one species of vestimentiferans.
  
  
• Renowned wildlife artist, Glen Loates, painted the sperm whale and giant squid characters.
  
  
• Scientific authentication provided by Dr. Clyde F.E. Roper (NMNH, Smithsonian Institution), Dr. Theodore W. Pietsch (University of Washington) and Dr. Verena Tunnicliffe (University of Victoria).
  
  
• Deep Sea is endorsed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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The uncharted waters of Deep Sea

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