Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, with funding from Google's Eric Schmidt, is building two three-person submersibles.

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Later, I went on my laptop, logged on to Google Earth, found Madagascar, and was able to visually travel across the ocean from that island country to Cape Town by slowly spinning the globe with a click-and-drag.

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