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NOAA Wrecks and Obstructions in Google Earth

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 - 15 from database format to Google Earth for easy display. Region 16 (Hawaii and the Pacific) will be added shortly. Simply download the following kmz file and open with Google Earth.


Google Earth AWOIS (2mb) KMZ file
To Download the free Google Earth program:

Sample screen shot:

awois_screen.jpg

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    • This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 4:34 am and is filed under Uncategorized, Boating Places, Maps & Charts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    4 Responses to “NOAA Wrecks and Obstructions in Google Earth”

    1. mdefelice Says:
      September 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm

      how can this source be cited for a screen shot?

    2. vzett Says:
      September 8th, 2006 at 2:20 am

      just cite “AWOIS Google Earth Implementation by DestinSharks.com at http://destinsharks.com/google-earth-marine-maps/”

    3. pro778 Says:
      March 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

      I tried to load the google earth kmz file, but I get an error message
      parse error at line 1 column 2 not well formed(invalid token)

    4. vzett Says:
      March 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

      Please download the file again. It is likely it got corrupted during your download. Also be sure you are running the latest version of Google Earth 4 for best results.

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