July 7, 2011

Google's Digital Activism : Ocean of Google

It is a strange story in a way. One day, a Texas gal from a ranching family falls in love with the ocean. She loves the water and the underwater world, and she has a life-changing 45-minute underwater encounter with a cuttlefish on the size of the thumb. Octopi are cephalopods, and scientists believe they could be smarter than us, some researchers believe fringy, cephalopods could be aliens from outer space or divine beings. Anyway, if you're going to depend to a cephalopod for 45 minutes, you are probably going to have to what the Texans called "a seminal moment." It changed her life.

Over a period of 35 years, she has over-water and underwater journey from the Texas Panhandle, they are taken to Micronesia to Polynesia and the Caribbean, coastal management, economic development and research. Now it is a digital activists together to save our seas. Her name is Charlotte Vick, and she is the curator of the ocean layer in Google Earth.

 To understand what is Google Ocean, download Google Earth, a free application that runs on your computer and allows you to fly around the globe like Superman or Wonder Woman. It's pretty hard to describe without actually experiencing it, but it is a little strange when you dive and fly under the water, kind of like Aquaman. Once you swim around in your virtual sea you will find, nestled in the middle of water, videos and photos and articles from the likes of National Geographic, Lindblad Expeditions, which have been Cousteau Society, and Dr. Sylvia Earle contributed.

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