(brisbanetimes.com.au) - Google's Street View has visited the Great Barrier Reef.
Street View is notorious for capturing unexpected moments that are weird and wonderful. But in this case life under the sea appears colourful, leisurely and peaceful for its inhabitants.
The underwater Google tool provides users the ability to explore in 360-degree surrounds among fish and coral at 20 different spots in the Great Barrier Reef.
The Google project was completed to mark World Oceans Day on June 8.
They also captured images of other ocean locations, including spots in Bali, the Bahamas, the Maldives and at an Indonesian shipwreck.
The images were collected in collaboration with and in partnership with the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, the US Government's National Marine Sanctuaries and the Chagos Conservation Trust.
Staff from Google's Ocean Program said they were planning on documenting new underwater areas.
"We hope the release of this imagery inspires people to learn more about this precious natural resource," they said.
"As the ocean changes we must change with it by creating new technologies to help document the state of the ocean today and how it changes in years to come."
Google has also released a Street View featuring some of the world's most remote islands.
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