The frigid waters of the dark and briny deep may first appear
uncharted, but in reality the data is out there, scattered
across public sources. Getting three dimensional data from a few
leagues of the sea can be a nightmare for researchers and
industry professionals alike. The 3 petabytes of public ocean
data out there is disconnected, often archived and never used
again. Making even a fraction of that more accessible offers a
huge value to anyone looking for it. On top of that, once you
find the data it is still difficult to work with. Mariexplore, a
Tallinn/San Francisco based company estimates now that 80% of
exploration time is spent on data processing. Marinexplore wants
to cut that number fivefold. To do so, they have brought
together a huge chunk of the publicly available data and release
it into an easily tappable resource, while simultaneously
building a community around their data. "The problem with all of
this is that the ocean and seas are very big, and no one can own
all of the hardware in the wo