Ancient map : Delaware Bay Vinckeboons 1629

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Nautical chart of Zwaanendael ("Swanendael") and Godyn's Bay in New Netherland. Zwaanendael was a patroonship founded by Samuel Godyn, a director of the Dutch West India Company, in 1629.

Godyn made his land claim to the West India Company under jurisdiction of the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions.
After a short time, the initial 32 inhabitants were murdered by local Indians and Godyn sold his land back to the West India Company.
The West India Company kept the names of the local area, including Godyn's Bay, which eventually became Delaware Bay.
Ink and watercolor with pictorial relief from Johannes Vingboons

Ocean requiem

Ocean Requiem from Howard Hall

Image of the week : shoal of sardines in shape of dolphin

Steve de Neef blog
Pescador Island, home to many sardines

Links :

• stevedeneef.photoshelter.com : underwater and nature images
  
• FlickR : Steve de Neef's photostream

See the seafloor like never before on World Oceans Day

The red lines show new seafloor data from Columbia, CSUMB and UH in Google Earth

From GoogleLatLon

Only a tiny fraction of our oceans have ever been explored.
As a matter of fact, we know more about the surfaces of Mars and the Moon than we do about our own ocean floor.
So in honor of World Oceans Day, Google collaborated with Columbia University to add more ocean seafloor terrain to Google Earth than has ever been available before.
With the addition of Columbia’s Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis data, you can explore half the ocean area that has ever been mapped, an area larger than North America.

Google partners at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia have curated 20 years of data from almost 500 ship cruises and 12 different institutions.
See the full GMRT attribution layer in the Earth Gallery to learn more.
High-res underwater mapping is vital to understanding how tsunamis will spread around the globe.
For example, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) created a Tsunami spread map after the Japan earthquake to allow anyone to visualize the wave spread.

To get started, dive under the ocean surface by clicking any ocean in Google Earth and explore underwater volcanoes, trenches and sea mountain peaks.
You can also download this Seafloor updates kmz file to take a tour of the new high-resolution data.

2011 Seafloor Tour video highlights some of the amazing places you’ll find in Google Earth, like the Mendocino Ridge, where the massive Juan de Fuca Plate slides toward western North America.

Continue exploring with the Deep Sea Vents Ridge 2000 Google Earth tour, which includes the deepest volcanic eruption ever captured on video at the West Mata volcano, near Fiji.
Twenty additional ocean education posts from Ridge 2000 can be found in the Explore the Ocean layer in Google Earth.

Complete your tour, by checking out the recently published University of Hawaii at Manoa's 50-meter seafloor synthesis for the US Hawaiian islands and California State University Monterey Bay’s new data for Cordell Bank and the Gulf of the Farallones off the west coast of California.

Hoping this new high-res terrain data inspires you to dive into the unknown world that is the ocean and discover the many underwater treasures that lie beneath.

Links :

• Wired : Explore the Deep Seas with Google Oceans update
  

The old man and the sea

The old man and the sea from Osman ÖZ