Inspired by a challenge from ocean explorer Sylvia Earle, Ocean in Google Earth has become a portal for anyone with a computer to virtually explore the wonders of our blue ocean planet.

Ocean in Google Earth gives people the ablity to traverse the ocean as never before. Previously this type of ocean exploration could only be experienced by a handful of pioneering adventurers like Don Walsh, a past Benchley winner and one of only two humans to have gone to the deepest part of the sea back in 1960.