After visiting large cities with their cameras, touring inhospitable regions of the Arctic, photographing unknown rural corners, getting on the railway in the Swiss Alps, the Amazon River or the National Gallery in London, the Google Street View team has taken another step and has obtained panoramic images of the Australian Great Barrier Reef that from today will allow any Internet user to take a walk along the bottom of the sea without leaving the screen. To achieve this, they have teamed up with the promoters of the Catlin Seaview Survey project, who study the planet’s coral reefs using a squid-shaped robot that moves at 4 kilometers per hour and captures 360-degree panoramic photos, with 24 megapixels, each 4 seconds.
The result is impressive images like these in which you can see the spectacular fauna that lives in these ocean paradises. Google has already photographed the Molokini crater in Hawaii, as well as reefs off Apo Island in the Philippines.
