Philippe Cousteau (grandson of the famous underwater explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau), who joined a team to make a documentary, using the support of Survey scooter near Wilson Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Large Porites coral rock on the right is estimated to have more than 500 years old. (All photos: Catlin Seaview Survey)
Richard Vevers left the advertising world of London to go to Australia and pursue his dream of a career in underwater photography - it interested him since his youth in Bromley, England. Now, he and his team on the Catlin Seaview Survey, thanks to no cooperation with Google Street View, has resulted in underwater images are perhaps the most commonly seen of all time.
"I see a lot of stuff going on under the sea that are not aesthetically and rarely think about," said Vevers. "I see it as an issue of advertising. Our solution is to reveal the contents of the ocean and let the conservation organizations that continue the work of the rest. "
Each season, this large manta rays eat in the water filled with plankton that surrounds the Lady Elliot Island, at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef
Vevers and his team capture images of beautiful, clear, with a 360-degree angle of the six major coral reef regions around the world to be used as a baseline to monitor the rapid degradation. "We started with a rock because we have already lost 40 percent in the last 30 years, and because of the effects of climate change, degradation does not seem to be slowing down," said Vevers. "It will provide an outstanding basis and have not been there to measure the change. These environments will more often hit by hurricanes and bleaching. Improvement is very important in this regard. "
In 2013 SVII camera surveying the rock's center, the Coral Triangle in the western Pacific Ocean, where most marine biodiversity.
Teams that start with Australia, then moved to the Caribbean, and this year will continue exploration in the Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia. Next year they will be diving in the Indian Ocean, followed by the Red Sea, and the Pacific Ocean last. Catlin Seaview camera rigs are made pursuant to the camera pod Streetview Trekker backpack and consists of several cameras Canon 5D in a waterproof container spherical, controlled by a Samsung tablet, and driven by an underwater scooter Dive X. The Seaview divers routinely dive so far two kilometers and produce 3,000 images in one day. Only a small portion of some of the best pictures that have been uploaded to Google Street View, but everything is processed into Catlin Global Reef Record - an open source application that is available for researchers or managers of the ocean.
According to scientists, more than 50 years ago, 40 percent of coral reefs in the world disappeared. In 2013, the team conducted a survey to 13 countries in the Caribbean region, which suffered a greater loss of coral reefs in this period, as shown by this picture that captured off the coast of Bonaire.
During the work, Vevers often find sea views make it stunned. "You do not know what is on the next corner," he said, "When you are in such a remote place far northern Great Barrier Reef - which takes two days to get there - and you jump into the water, it'm really crazy. You could hear the buzz of baby sharks directly, can take pictures in depth, and then meet with the manta rays that leaned to the front of the camera. "
The Coral Sea is a wild and remote area located in the northeast of Australia (beyond the Great Barrier Reef).
The Seaview Survey also captures the magic of man-made countless in depth. The Underwater Museum which consists of live rock which lies off the coast of Cancun, Mexico; Antilla Shipwreck in Aruba; and the Christ of the Abyss in Key Largo, Florida are all included in the collection of Seaview.
If you can find three green sea turtles in this picture, which was taken in the initialsurvey to Heron Island (at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef).
Vever team is currently developing an automated underwater vehicle, or AUV(autonomous underwater vehicle) to be deployed in 2017 to explore and captureimages oceans. "This AUV can move up to a meter and a half from the top of the seabed at a speed of one knot (one nautical mile per hour)," he said. "They can cover a distance of 12 kilometers a day, which could significantly expand the project." This vehicle will also be perfect for treading the path previously to measure the impact ofthe blow, for example from a large cyclone, to the reef beds are very vulnerable.
A group of pompano Gerong swim on a bed of healthy hard corals in Lady Elliot Island, at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef.
"It is a science that has not been possible to do on this scale before - to measure the blow and create new guidelines that can be used to measure the level of coral improvement," said Vevers. "I think it fair to say that we bring Street View to places that do not have imagined when saying it." (Mu / dh / ik)
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