Google Launches 'Virtual Diving' Reef Tours

Have you ever wanted to see under the sea like your a scuba diver? Well google have created an application just for that!

Google have launched an underwater street view style application where panoramic images are used make it look like your underwater!

They have teamed up with Catlin Seaview Survey to increase the awareness that the underwater world needs protecting.

"This is a critical decade for coral reefs," said a Catlin project director "We need to be recording them as fast as we can and involving people to halt the decline, which is alarming at the moment."


A small team of Caitlin divers have helped by diving under the water and taking the images and later sent to google to set up the online-application.

"You don't have to be a scuba diver or even know how to swim to explore and experience six of the ocean's most incredible living coral reefs," said Google Maps and Earth vice president Brian McClendon.

The new underwater locations include the Great Barrier Reef, the Molokini Crater, and the Apo Island marine reserve.

To view these spectacular images simply visit:
www.maps.google.com/ocean

Have Fun!