Friday 15 August 2014

Have you explored the Great Barrier Reef this morning?

Underwater ‘street view’ maps are here!

It’s so easy for us to go online and get a 360 degree ground level view of almost any street throughout the world, but now Google have branched out to coral reefs and other underwater wonders!

It’s been announced that scientists will be using specialised fisheye lenses under water in Florida Keys this week to apply the street view mapping.

Some of the panoramic and rotating images will be available online next week including the selection on Google maps. It will be like scuba diving from your computer!

Around 400,000 images have already been produced of the reefs off Australia and the Caribbean.

These can be found here

So why not spend part of your afternoon exploring some of the beautiful underwater wonders of the world, and look out for the Florida edition very soon!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Laura

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