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Imagine flying along the Mariana Trench or tracking a white shark off the coast of Santa Cruz — that and more is possible with Google’s new application Google Ocean, which debuted Feb. 2 at the California Academy of Science in San Francisco. The new layer of the interactive map covers the 72 percent of the earth’s surface previously not addressed by Google Earth, an interactive map with different search criteria. Searching for a specific address, the map spins to a specific location and lets the user zoom in from satellite to street view. “Layers” map out neighborhoods and find restaurants, churches, dry cleaners, etc. In “places,” the user can also download tours of Asia, fly to Disneyland and other locations. Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist, oceanographer and National Geographic magazine’s explorer-in-residence, first addressed the missing chunk of the planet to John Hanke, director of Google Earth, at a conference in Spain. “You [Earle] were there and said some very nice things abo
