Explore the Seas Online

While you're making a splash with reading this summer,
you can also explore the oceans with your mouse online:

to dive to the deepest part of the ocean, you just need a computer and
Google Earth 5.0, to access the virtual ocean .

Just set it up: Download Google Earth at earth.google.com.
Install & download the program, then check off the Ocean layer
(make sure Terrain is selected).

Once you are set up, then you can:

--check out expeditions of the Couteau Society (click
on an icon of Jacques Couteau with his red cap).

-- see what the ocean looks like through the eyes of its creatures,
click on any animal icon and play the simulation that pops up.
Ones you'll want to look at: bluefin tuna in the Atlantic, and
sea lion in the Pacific (both endangered by overfishing).

Just one more way to Make a Splash this summer!