Marine Charts as You’ve Never Seen them Before!

Google Earth meets the sea with EarthNC™ Marine Charts exclusively from DestinSharks.com’s new venture EarthNC.com. It took over 6 months to provide an ‘Earth’ alternative for NOAA ENC® vector charts covering US coastal waters. Now fully released, EarthNC charts offer the full catalog of 600+ NOAA vector charts and most Army Corps of Engineer Inland ENC Charts. Each EarthNC™ chart features the same elements (buoys, channels, lights, etc.) found in the original ENC files - complete with a custom marine icon set for Google Earth.

Much More to See at EarthNC!

EarthNC charts are the backdrop for a wide range of special interest nautical content to including marine services, live weather, tide forecasts, local boating guides and more. EarthNC offers a free ‘online’ version for registered users.

US Tide Predictions for over 4000 coastal locations
DestinSharks is excited to announce our newest Google Earth map project - Tide Stations and Predictions for the USA.

We have mapped over 1400 “reference” tide stations and 2900 “subordinate” tide stations covering US Coastal regions from Maine to Texas and from San Diego to Alaska.

Each station has a link for a 3-day prediction chart. We’ve since improved our tide charts for inclusion into EarthNC Online, each prediction loads directly into Google Earth when you click on a tide station!

NOAA AWOIS Database
DestinSharks.com is pleased to provide a Google Earth rendition of the NOAA Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System - AWOIS. The AWOIS contains thousands of entries for the entire US coastline, Great Lakes, and some US Territories divided into 16 regions.

We have converted regions 1 - 16 from database format to Google Earth. Simply download the following kmz file and open with Google Earth.

Google Earth AWOIS (2mb) KMZ file

AWOIS screen shot:

Emerald Coast Dive Sites
The Emerald Coast Dives Sites file contains locations and basic information for 103 reefs and wrecks listed in the Emerald Coast Reef Association’s Public Database. They inlcude a nice mix of shallow water and deep water dives from 1 to 35 miles outside of Destin East Pass.

Click to Download the Emerald Coast Dive Sites KMZ from our local server.

Pensacola Dive Sites
Pensacola Dive and Fishing Sites is our 4th in a growing line of free marine Google Earth maps. Offering location information for over 950 artificial reefs, wrecks, and natural features it’s sure to be a big help for area divers and fishermen. We’d like to thank MBT Divers of Pensacola for permission to use their online “numbers” list to create this file. We highly recommend their USS Oriskany photos and video.

Click to Download the Pensacola Dive Sites KMZ

We welcome reports and/or photos for any of these locations at divesites@destinsharks.com which we will link to the map in future file updates. We also welcome new submissions of waypoints or news articles.

Death Valley Animated Drive-Through for Google Earth Beta 4
With the release of Google Earth Beta 4 version 4.0.2091, Google has added support for animating events such as GPS tracks or other data. To put this new capability to the test, we built our

Death Valley Driving Tour KMZ(click to download)

This file shows the use of the new TimeSpan KML element to animate a recent drive through Death Valley National Park. This file shows the use of TimeSpan for both Placemark and ScreenOverlay data types by showing images taken for each location point. The images were generated from a camcorder used during the drive.

To use, you will need Beta version 4.0.2091 of Google Earth or higher. Please visit our Google Earth Marine Maps category for more Google Earth fun!

Google Earth Download

To Download the free Google Earth program:

Be sure to check out our Google Earth Maps category for other great Google Earth content developed by other websites.