Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874). Verne named the "Nautilus" after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine "Nautilus" (1800). For the design of the "Nautilus" Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine "Plongeur", a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel. "Nautilus" is described by Verne as "a masterpiece containing masterpieces". It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is an attraction located in the Tomorrowland area of Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, which opened on June 11, 2007. Based on the characters and settings of the 2003 Disney·Pixar film, "Finding Nemo", it is a re-theming of the classic Submarine Voyage attraction that operated from 1959 to 1998. The original Submarine Voyage was built in 1959 as part of the "new" Tomorrowland. The attraction was loosely based on the "USS Nautilus", the first nuclear-powered submarine, and its voyage to the North Pole in 1958. It closed on September 9, 1998. At