Google Ocean

http://earth.google.com/ocean/

"You've done a great job with the dirt. But what about the water?" Dr. Sylvia Earle to John Hanke Director, Google Earth and Maps, March 2006

Now, they've done a great job with the oceans too!

Google Ocean focuses on the 70.8 percent of the world's surface that is the global ocean.

Based on ocean-depth data from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, the Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and other sources, Google has created a program with which users can dive beneath the waves to explore the nooks and crannies of the seafloor - without getting wet.

Pop-up film clips, commentary and map overlays of everything from local marine life and undersea volcanoes to sunken ships and surf conditions are provided by dozens of Google Ocean collaborators among them numerous universities, the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution and the Cousteau Society.

Download Google Earth 5.0 including Google Ocean

Click here to explore specific programs aspects such as Sea Level Rise Animations, Reef Monitoring or Arctic Ice Melt Patterns.

Click here for Google Ocean's Introductory Video featuring Dr. Sylvia Earle

John Hanke, Director, Google Earth and Maps gives Daniel Sieberg of CBS an in-depth look into operating and understanding the new, oceanic feature that Google Earth has added. Click here.