IN PICTURES: The Catlin
Seaview Survey turns its attention to the Maldives, which relies on coral for tourist dollars and coastal protection
Photo: XL Catlin
Seaview Survey
Working with in partnership with the Catlin
Seaview Survey, Google Map engineers applied the same technology behind their revolutionary land based street - view maps to capture detailed, digitally - swimmable scenes of several gorgeous aquatic ecosystem.
Image information: Alice Lawrence, a marine biologist, assesses the bleaching at Airport Reef in American Samoa (credit: XL Catlin
Seaview Survey)
In partnership with the Directorate of the Galapagos National Park, The Charles Darwin Foundation, and Catlin
Seaview Survey, we traveled to the archipelago to collect 360 - degree Street View imagery.