Our big idea was to take Google Street View underwater. Funded by our founding sponsor XL Catlin we developed a unique underwater camera capable of revealing the oceans in Google Street View. More people went virtual diving in the first month of its launch than have ever been diving in person. The imagery is the most viewed underwater imagery ...

08/06/2015 · Below are 10 of the great underwater sights captured by Google's Street View technology. 1. Humpback whales in the Cook Islands. 2. Sea turtles in Pedras Secas. 3. Blue waters of Parrot Cay, Turks ...

Google Underwater Street View of the Great Barrier Reef. When you’re done checking out South Korea, let’s take a flight down to Lady Elliot Island, in the Great Barrier Reef. What you’ll notice right away is that this is a shallow water dive. It reminds me exactly of the view with goggles on as you float on top and take a break from ...

10/01/2020 · Google Street View does support underwater 360-degree photos. Solution. Here are some of the dive sites already captured on Google Street View to inspire you. Many of these were captured by the Underwater Earth team (who inspired this post – check out their cameras!). Become a Trekker.

Our big idea was to take Google Street View underwater. Funded by our founding sponsor, XL Catlin, we developed a unique underwater 360-degree camera (the SVII design) capable of revealing the ocean on the Street View platform. More people went virtual diving in the first week of its launch than have ever been diving in person.

26/09/2012 · Google has just launched underwater Street View in partnership with The Catlin Seaview Survey. You can now use Google Maps to swim with sea turtles, chase a manta ray or watch the sun set over a reef. You can drift dive Maui's Molokini Crater, or snorkel Oahu's famous Hanauma Bay. All of this without ever getting wet or leaving your desk.

A rapid baseline survey of the world's coral reefs. For the first six years of our existence, Underwater Earth was more frequently referred to by the name of our biggest project at the time - the XL Catlin Seaview Survey.. If you're going to reveal the oceans, why not collect imagery that is a valuable scientific record too - a global record on a 'Google scale' that enables scientists to ...