Marine Facility

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Enclosure marker for the mosasaur tank of the marine facility.

"Attention, guests. The Lagoon Rotunda and Spectacular is housed in a pressurized underwater environment. We suggest you pinch your nose and push your breath to equalize your ears while we descend. If you experience any lasting discomfort or feel unusually giddy, let your attendant know immediately."

—Tour Guide^(src)

The Marine Facility was an attraction of Jurassic Park. It featured the mosasaur Tylosaurus, a genus of an extinct marine reptile. It was planned to open to the public in Phase II.

The Marine Facility only appears in Jurassic Park: The Game.

Location

On the Tour the Island site there was a blue "InGen" icon on the northern part of the island, next to the North Dock. The icon linked to classified information, the information is locked by a password. The icon links to video footage from two security cameras.

It was located close to the North Dock and the Desalination Plant and was on one of the Safari Tour routes.

Entrance

Before tourists would travel down to the subsurface level of the attraction, they pass through the entrance hall. The entrance is set up as a little museum. Tourists are educated about the evolution of marine life from the Paleozoic to the Mesozoic Eras.

The display tanks and pools features:

• Atlantic blue tang
• Blacktail butterflyfish
• Red discus
• Nautilus exhibit
• Coelacanth exhibit
• Horseshoe crab touch pool

As well as several murals and carved fossils of ammonites, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs, amongst others extinct and extant genera.

^{The mural over the Marine Facility's frieze.}

Elevator

The elevator was housed in the museum and the elevator's passwords changed daily, using different time periods. Inside the lift, there was an automated message that said:

"Attention, the lagoon rotunda and spectacular is housed in a pressurized underwater environment. We suggest you pinch your nose and push your breath to equalize the pressure in your ears while we descend. If you experience any lasting discomfort or feel unusually giddy let your attendant know immediately."

The elevator was oval-shaped and enclosed in a glass tube. One side of the elevator was open and was pressed against the doors, and the glass as they descended, providing a view of the lagoon and Rotunda.

Rotunda

Concept Art of Marine Facility.

The rotunda was a large underwater facility which enabled visitors to view the lagoon and the Marine Facility's underwater structures. In the center of the rotunda was the control room which contained two levels. On the upper level, there was a computer terminal and a phone, and on the lower level there was pool leading into the lagoon, scuba gear, and a sealed door. There were also information panels dotted around the rotunda.

Fish supplies

The Fish Hatchery.

The food for the Mosasaur Tylosaurus was fish, of an unknown species of Koi. The fish were bred and raised in 4 circular pools, which was next door to the entrance museum. The Fish hatchery was accessible from the underground tunnels.

Construction

Laura Sorkin wrote in her Journal that Hammond cut half of her research funding for 'urgent needs'. A year later Sorkin saw that the funding was used to build the Marine Facility, she thought that Dr. Wu, with the help of the then newly hired Dr. Kajal Dua, may have created a Plesiosaur as the main attraction. Later, she later saw that it housed a Mosasaur.

The Tour the Island website revealed when the attraction was planned to open:

Currently scheduled to be opened to visitors 6 months after 
the main park, the marine facility will offer more revenue 
generation opportunities. Phase II PR and marketing 
campaigns are ready for approval. The Mosasaur will provide 
the star attraction as Jurassic Park’s 
‘Devil from the deep’.

InGen had hired or was about to hire marine specialists for this attraction:

Newly hired marine animal behaviorists and redesigned safety protocols will 
assure a thrilling and family friendly marine spectacular.

Jurassic Park Incident

The Marine Facility was one of two locations that had working telephones during the Jurassic Park Incident as discovered by Doctor Laura Sorkin when she hacked into the mainframe after the park's systems were restored. The only other location with a working phone was the Visitor Center, but the Marine Facility's phones went off-line during the power outage after it lasted longer than the battery backups and the facility's systems had to be rebooted at the control room.

After fleeing into the Maintenance Tunnels, Laura, Billy Yoder, Nima Cruz, Gerry Harding and his daughter Jess decided to head for the Marine Facility as the tunnels didn't extend as far as the Visitor Center and it was too far for overland travel. Fleeing Troodons, the group was forced to split in two with Laura, Billy and Jess making their way to the facility through the tunnels while Gerry and Nima returned to the surface and got a ride in Explorer 02 after encountering the tour vehicle at one of the island's scenic view points on its way to the Marine Facility.

Once the group was reunited, Billy revealed that the Costa Rican military intended to napalm Isla Nublar and Laura locked her companions in the entryway while she headed to the control room alone to use the phones to demand that the bombing be called off. Gerry managed to figure out how to reactivate the elevator, but Laura trapped the group in the rotunda as hostages in an effort to get InGen to call off the bombing. When they still refused, Laura released the facility's Tylosaurus into the ocean where it rammed the control room windows, knocking Laura into the pool to be devoured by the Tylosaurus. Having lost his mind, Billy called in the bombing himself and then fled, using a grenade to shatter the rotunda's windows, flooding it.

Although Gerry, Jess, and Nima sealed themselves in the control room, the door's seal had been broken by Billy in an effort to stop Laura, causing the room to slowly flood. With no other choice, the group decided to don scuba gear and swim the lagoon to the sea caves nearby, using the pipeline as cover and a guide. Gerry released the Tylosaurus's daily food into the lagoon as a distraction and he, Jess, and Nima fled the flooding facility. After a harrowing swim, the three managed to reach the sea caves and exited near the North Dock.

Trivia

• Concept art of this environment was shown in the Telltale Insider Forums as exclusive art. It was labeled: "jp_envMarineFacilityPublicArea".
• The Mosasaur (identified as a Tylosaurus) is one of the first non-dinosaurian creature to be displayed in the Marine Aquarium (since no other creature, except Horseshoe Crab, that is shown in the Jurassic Park: The Game). The Mosasaur itself was never explained in any of the Jurassic Park films.
• A map of Isla Sorna is seen in the rotunda. It's an easter egg put in by Telltale Games.