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Google Earth is a superb tool that helps in exploring our planet and beyond. Yet, there are some incredible remote and inaccessible places on Earth in the depths of our ocean. Luckily, now Google got its hands on those places too, making it available for anyone to explore undersea world. Floating around scanning the sea floor isn’t virtually as thrilling as you could think, until now that is, as Google has just launched Ocean Showcase, a web site dedicated to the wonders of the sea.

Jenifer Austin Foulkes, product manager at Google wrote -

With the launch of our new Ocean Showcase, you can now tour the ocean from the comfort of your web browser using the Google Earth plugin.

Over the past year, many photographers, naturalists, government groups and non-profit partners have added photos and videos to the Explore the Ocean layer in Google Earth, providing a great introduction to lots of ocean features. Enthusiasts continue to add photos and ratings to Wannadive.net and Wannasurf.com, improving the Ocean Sports layers. Anyone can be a desktop Cousteau,” she adds.

You can check out the displayed tours on the Ocean Showcase site. The number of people and organizations contributing data for the Ocean layer in Google Earth simply means that there is actually quite a lot to see and explore. So Google decided to highlight some of most interesting content with a new website and a dedicated layer in Google Earth. It’s basically a wide tour of the ocean floor, put together with the help of some famous scientific organizations, or in the case of the more ’sporty’ information about surf and diving sites, from famous websites devoted to the facts.

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