Google Streetview goes underwater
05:04, 27 September 2012
LONDON. September 27. KAZINFORM Dying to see the Great Barrier Reef but don't fancy the flight Down Under? You may soon want to cast Google Maps in the role of your personal travel savior.
For the first time, Google Maps' Street View has ventured beneath the sea to capture six of the world's best living coral reefs -- three along the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, Apo Island in the Philippines, Hanauma Bay in Hawaii and Molokini crater in Maui -- in panoramic, interactive sequences, Kazinform refers to CNN.
You can swim with a manta ray, track a turtle or follow a bunch of snorkelers thanks to The Catlin Seaview Survey , a major scientific study of the world's reefs, which used a specially designed camera to capture the images.
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