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Google’s Underwater View of the Pacific Ocean

May 12, 2016

Google Street View of Tafeu Cove, American Samoa. Photo credit: Google Maps

Explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean from your desktop. Google, in partnership with XL Catlin Seaview Survey (NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the Chagos Conservation Trust), created underwater images of more than 40 locations around the world, including:

  • Big Momma, American Samoa
  • Fagatele Bay, American Samoa
  • Tafeu Cove, American Samoa
  • The Channel at Rose Atoll, American Samoa
  • Humpback Whales, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
  • PUE Coral Gardens, Cook Islands
  • Black Rock Chimneys, Cook Islands

The virtual tour at Tafeu Cove within the National Park of American Samoa starts as a half-in / half-out then dives underwater to explore the reef: goo.gl/maps/VLKbCgf3DZK2
 

Tafeu Cove. Photo credit: Google/Catlin Seaview Survey

Tafeu Cove. Photo credit: Google Maps


 

Big Momma, American Samoa. Photo credit: Google Maps

Big Momma, American Samoa. Photo credit: Google Maps


 

A humpback whale in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The whole 2 million square kilometer exclusive economic zone of the Cook Islands is a designated whale sanctuary. Photo credit: Google/Catlin Seaview Survey

A humpback whale in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Photo credit: Google Maps

The goal of the partnership was to bring to light the global devastation of coral reefs (over 40 percent has been lost over the past 30 years) with the hope that by visualizing the beauty and the damage, more people would be motivated to support conservation.

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by Heather 

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