Dive thru the Portal
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
–The Little Mermaid: Under the Sea
Thousands of photos and videos of the seafloor, its creatures and the coastline — most areas never seen before — are now just a mouse-click away, thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Video and Photograph Portal.
The Portal is a treat for you and me and a great help for coastal managers faced with decisions from protecting habitats to understanding hazards and managing land use.
The largest database of its kind, it delivers detailed, fine-scale representations of the coast plus maps of the exact location of each recording.
A work in progress, the Portal so far covers the seafloor off California and Massachusetts with aerial images of the Gulf of Mexico and Mid-Atlantic coastlines.
Some 100,000 photographs have been collected along with 1,000 hours of trackline video covering 2,000 miles of coastline.
Upcoming are Washington State’s Puget Sound, Hawaii and the Arctic.
Start with the tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/qbh5o4v.
Then dive in: http://cmgvideo.usgsportals.net.
Learn more about USGS science: http://marine.usgs.gov.