dailymail.co.uk— Google users will soon be able to explore the oceans from the comfort of their living room, thanks to an upgrade to their popular Google Earth software.
Feb 2, 2009View in Crawl 4
You can see the Francisco Morizon quite easily. But then again, that one has been above water since it ran aground back in the 60's. Not much left of her though, see it while you still can.
I'm admitting here that I didn't even bother to RTFA before I made this post, and had a complete lack of understanding of the new feature.I actually have to say, this does look pretty cool, but other than the "wow" eye-candy bonus points it adds when you take a glance at it, I won't ever actually use it for anything real. I suspect unless you are a scuba diver or a deep sea fisherman, you probably won't have much use for it either.
roscoFeb 3, 2009
You can see the Francisco Morizon quite easily. But then again, that one has been above water since it ran aground back in the 60's. Not much left of her though, see it while you still can.
eriksrocksFeb 3, 2009
This is incorrect. You can't actually see things on the bottom of the ocean. Only topographic data is provided. Ars Technica correctly states, "While you cannot dive to actually visit and zoom around underwater landmarks like shipwrecks, Google does provide a wealth of embedded content from sites like Wikipedia, National Geographic, and YouTube for many significant locations."<a class="user" href="http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/02/hands-on-google-earth-50-goes-unda-da-sea-back-in-time.ars">http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/02/hands ...</a>
dannybullFeb 3, 2009
don't dig him down, maybe he used the new time control feature
andrewmoyerFeb 4, 2009
I'm admitting here that I didn't even bother to RTFA before I made this post, and had a complete lack of understanding of the new feature.I actually have to say, this does look pretty cool, but other than the "wow" eye-candy bonus points it adds when you take a glance at it, I won't ever actually use it for anything real. I suspect unless you are a scuba diver or a deep sea fisherman, you probably won't have much use for it either.