 Ocean Life - The Great Barrier Reef 1-doc
by SUMERIA
From the publisher:
The fourth in a series of CD-ROM based books on marine life from Sumeria. This two-CD set includes over three hours of original, narrated, underwater video, music, and photography. Approximately 250 species from more than 40 families of reef fishes are featured, each including comprehensive text, range maps, photographs, and movies. Interactive maps of the Great Barrier Reef allow you to explore with great detail the largest coral reef in the world. A section on the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef enables readers to understand the formation and development of the reef. Other features include text search, text and movie export, and a visual index.
 
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 Ocean Life 1 West Pacific PC/MAC
Sumeria, Inc.
With this new edition, this multimedia reference work now includes over an hour of narrated underwater video original music and extensive underwater photography. Observe more than 30 families and over 100 species of fish, complemented with comprehensive text and videos. This second edition features detailed sections on marine life taxonomy (including invertebrates), an expanded internal anatomy section, and a section on the formation of coral reefs. The maps of Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga have now been expanded to cover scuba diving areas within the region.
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 Cousteau's World: Coral Reef
Win95/Win98/Win3.1 Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Enteractive Product Code: COUSTEAUPR
Welcome to CITIES UNDER THE SEA, where you'll explore a coral reef - one of the world's most gorgeous ecological treasures. Jean-Michel Cousteau introduces you to the beautiful, fascinating animals and plants whose lives are connected in a web of intriguing stories. Just like a city, a coral reef is home to gardeners tending their plants, recyclers cleaning up the community, and partners relying on each other. You'll see and hear how the reef ecosystem has evolved into a super-efficient community. A high-tech virtual submarine transports you to seven undersea Laboratories, each focused on an ecological theme: Living Communities, Change and Evolution, Connections, Energy Flows, Biodiversity, Cycles, and Adaptations. In each Lab, you'll choose among Topics filled with rich, narrated video, stunning photographs, and beautiful graphics that reveal the delicacy, splendor, and rigors of life on the coral reef. Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team of explorers and photographers have packed each underwater Lab with all-original material created just for this disc. Meticulously researched with the help of leading marine biologists, CITIES UNDER THE SEA is scientifically illuminating, magnificently presented, and highly interactive.
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 Webster's Great Barrier Reef
http://www.websterpublishing.com/
includes over 1,500 colour images, around 40 minutes of video and over 1,800 pages of information.
Learn about Queensland's Great Barrier Reef underwater environment, view the reef structure, see the fish and animals that live there, watch videos and colour images of the reef inhabitants, and discover dangerous marine life. A special section provides over 400 colour pictures and captions of the most popular reef animals. Produced in conjunction with GBRMPA, Townsville and written by Dr Lester Cannon, Dr Leslie Newman and Professor David Hopley. Currently in its third release.
Format: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 or higher, CD-ROM
Intended Audience: All ages
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 The Living Oceans
by Topics Entertainment
Plunge into the fascinating underwater world of active volcanoes, deep-sea peaks, cavernous trenches, and the longest mountain ridges on Earth. Observe how colorful and complex marine species survive and flourish in the deep. With documentary footage, detailed computer graphics, colorful video clips, Web links, and commentary from leading oceanographers, The Living Oceans four CD-ROM deluxe collection is a content-rich, educational resource for the entire family.
Investigate the history of sea exploration, ocean topography, hydrothermal vents, an awe-inspiring abyss, and more. This easy-to-use and interactive set delivers a comprehensive and visually stimulating oceanographic reference collection to your desktop, including Our Living Oceans, Our Living Oceans Junior for kids, Oceans from Discovery Channel School, and the Great Barrier Reef screen saver from award-winning marine photographer Bill Wood.
You'll learn how oceans affect our weather patterns and provide essential food, minerals, and medicines. Dive into the deep sea and explore bottom feeders, sponges, and other fascinating marine life. Uncover the hazards of underwater diving, and see the technology used to descend more than 13,000 feet. Kids learn how to classify marine life by their common characteristics, and how to place them in their correct habitats. Enjoy interactive games, exciting videos, colorful photographs, and comic strips that explain environments in a format that helps kids develop analytical skills while having fun.
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 ARCMEDIA Ocean Aquarium 3D Deluxe Edition
( Windows/Macintosh ) by Arcmedia
Ocean Aquarium 3D Deluxe Edition remakes your PC into a peaceful ocean paradise. There's no other aquarium where sharks, dolphins, sea turtles and exotic fish can live together peacefully!Realistic motion and incredible realism -- you'll be impressed by the sight of the Clymene Dolphin, Blue Shark, Green Sea Turtle and Atlantic Manta
Watch exotic fish like the Regal Angel, Blue Tang, Clown Trigger, Flame Angelfish, Percula Clownfish and more
Also includes five mystery fish to keep you guessing
Customize your own animal selection or let the computer surprise you!
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 Ocean Aquarium 3D
by Broderbund
This amazing software turns your PC monitor into an ocean aquarium so realistic it’s hard to believe the beautiful sea creatures don’t need daily feedings! Where else can you find sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, and exotic fish living together? Nowhere other than Ocean Aquarium 3D.
Features:
• Escape to a virtual aquarium with 12 eye-popping, ultra-realistic sea creatures from tropical fish to sea turtles.
• Enjoy a virtual desktop while you work.
• Customize your own animal selection or let the computer surprise you!
• Marvel at the full motion life-like movements of the 12 different species.
Transform your PC into a peaceful ocean paradise. Order today!
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 Coral Reef!
Packaging: Jewel Case
Publisher: Arnowitz Studios Product Code: CORALRFMJ
Dive into hours of captivating multimedia experiences and dazzling undersea adventures. Explore the world's most breathtaking reefs, from the teeming Lagoons and Mangroves at the waters' edge to the eerie depths of the mysterious Deep Reef Caves, in thirty-five multimedia Exhibits. Embark on insightfully narrated excursions through interactive exhibits via Tours. Investigate alternative paths to Coral Reef's immense collection of media through the Interactive Media Libraries. Encounter conflicting perspectives on Coral Reef exploitation and conservation through the multimedia Stories. Enjoy the humor and beauty of interactive photo essays in Galleries. Venture into the magnificent world of Coral Reef! - The Vanishing Undersea World - and discover the beauty and intricacy of the ocean's 'rain forest.' Learn why this fragile ecosystem may be disappearing forever. Rove through a vast treasure trove of movies, sounds and brilliant imagery, guided by your curiosity and a remarkable user interface.
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 Great Barrier Reef CD
From the world's leading authority on the Great Barrier Reef, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, comes this fully interactive CD featuring 54 movies and mini-documentaries. (Enlarge Image)
www.gbrmpa.gov.au
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 International diving locations
Operating system: Windows
Resolution : 640*480
Number of images: 300 plus several underwater videoclips (20 minutes)
Photographers : Jack Jackson / Normal Temple
Discover the undersea world: Welcome to the wonderful world that lies under the sea. This remarkable CD-ROM gives viewers an introduction into the myriad of colourful, interesting and often unique creatures that inhabit one of the most complex, diverse and beautiful ecosystems on our planet.
Great photographs by award winning underwater photographer and writer JACK JACKSON together with video-clips and background information, give an insight into fish, turtles, sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, nudibranchs, crabs, lobsters, corals, sponges, and shipwrecks while sharks are shown in spectacular close-up.
Some of the colours in sunlight are filtered out in the sea such that blue becomes prominent, in most instances the bright colours of many creatures are not obvious without the addition of artificial lighting. All the still pictures on this CD-ROM were taken very close-up with the addition of electronic flash to show the real colours in all their glory. Diving can be enjoyed by anyone, if this CD-ROM encourages more peopleto participate in diving and snorkelling, the authors' will have succeeded in their aim. Enjoy the undersea world! Photos & information by Jack Jackson / Videoclips by Norman Temple
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 OceansFrom: Countertop Video
Media: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows
The Oceans is a complete CD-ROM multimedia reference library on the undersea world. Covering such a vast subject is no easy task. This is the finest collection ever assembled on the subject. From whales and sharks, to the inute world of the workings of a tropical barrier reef, this CD-ROM collection is unmatched in depth and contant. Includes Worlds of the Reef, World of Sharks, Whales and Dolphins, The Great Barrier Reef and El Nino.
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 Worlds of the Reef
Multimedia CD-ROM Windows PC Platform
The CD-ROM is introduced by David Bellamy, President of Coral Cay Conservation. Coral Cay are a voluntary organisation concerned with the conservation of Coral Reefs around the World.
Coral Reefs provide homes for more than a third of all the fish species in the world and a myriad of other sea creatures. They harbour species yet to be identified and are precious reserves of biological diversity. Coral Reefs are both biologically important to us but also scientifically and economically.
Worlds of the Reef provides a highly interactive and detailed guide to the beautiful Reefs of the Caribbean and a host of similar reefs. Guided by an experienced and knowledgeable expert the user can go on a variety of simulated underwater expeditions to discover the wealth of life that lives in our Coral Reefs.
The Diving and Ecology Centre provides a way of learning more about the reef and provides training on the correct techniques and requirements in undertaking a diving trip to the reefs.
www.ransom.co.uk - www.netstoreusa.com
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 Complete Guide to the Undersea World
Win95/Win98/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: GUIDESEADR
A selective guide to the world's best scuba-diving and snorkeling destinations. Created by Sumeria, publisher of the OceanLife series of CD-ROMs, this guide includes photographs, movies, maps, and text to help you choose your next vacation destination. Sites include Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, Indonesia, the Caribbean, Micronesia, the Galapagos Islands, Mexico and Polynesia. Highly recommended.
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 Ocean Life 1: Western Pacific
Win95/Win98/Win3.1/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: OCEANL1DR
OceanLife Volume 1: With this new updated edition, the important Southwestern oceans have more thorough coverage and state-of-the-art video and sound. This multimedia reference work now includes over an hour of narrated underwater video, original music, and extensive underwater photography. Observe more than 30 families and over 100 species of fish, complemented with comprehensive text and videos. This second edition features detailed sections on marine life taxonomy (including invertebrates), an expanded internal anatomy section, and a section on the formation of coral reefs. The maps of Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga have now been expanded to cover scuba diving areas within the region. See never-before filmed behaviors, and copy any of the royalty-free video, photography, text, and maps to your own computer.
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 Ocean Life 2: Micronesia
Win95/Win98/Win3.1/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: OCEANL2DR
OceanLife Volume 2: Micronesia is the second in an interactive series of CD-ROM-based books on marine life. This double-CD set includes original narrated underwater video by Jerry Borrell and stunning photography by Robert F. Myers, author of the definitive guide to tropical fishes of Micronesia. With more than 140 species in territories ranging from Pohnpei to Belau, this CD features video of heretofore undocumented fish behavior on subjects like mating, predation, camouflage, brooding, and nesting. Learn more about Micronesia by exploring the topographical, relief, and political maps of the region.
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 Ocean Life 3: Hawaiian Islands
Win95/Win98/Win3.1/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: OCEANL3DR
OceanLife Volume 3: New features include enhanced still photography, a visual index to fish families, fast-display maps of the Hawaiian archipelago, Latin-name access, and extended morphology information on bony fishes. For educators, students, scuba divers, aquarists, and lovers of the ocean, this series lets you view the inhabitants of the ocean as never before possible. Ocean Life is a must-have addition to any collection of multimedia reference works.
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 Ocean Life 4: Great Barrier Reef
Win95/Win98/Win3.1/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: OCEANL4DR
OceanLife Volume 4: The Great Barrier Reef is the fourth in a series of CD-ROM-based books on marine life. This two-CD set includes over three hours of original, narrated, underwater video, music, and photography. Approximately 250 species from more than 40 families of reef fishes are featured, each including comprehensive text, range maps, photographs, and movies. Interactive maps of the Great Barrier Reef allow you to explore with great detail the largest coral reef in the world. A section on the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef enables readers to understand the formation and development of the reef. Other features include text search, text and movie export, and a visual index.
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 Ocean Life 5: Caribbean
Win95/Win98/Win3.1/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Sumeria Product Code: OCEANL5DR
OceanLife Volume 5: The Caribbean is the most thorough exploration of the Caribbean Sea available on CD-ROM. With state-of-the-art digital video and sound, this multimedia reference work includes over an hour of narrated underwater video, original music, and extensive underwater photography. Observe more than 45 families and over 200 species of fish, complemented with comprehensive text and videos.
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 Ocean: Origins of Life
Win95/Win98 Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: SEC Multimedia Product Code: OCEANOLPR
Ages 8 to adult. Winner of the 1997 MILIA Award for the most outstanding multimedia work in education. Dive into the Depths of the Primitive Ocean and Experience an Explosion of Life. It is 550 million years ago, when prehistoric birds, fish and the first vertebrates colonised the marine universe. Through millions of years of evolution, they journeyed out of their aquatic environment to conquer this strange land. Using 3-D rendered videos and accompanied by original captivating music, the user sees kinetic animated images of extinct species, recreated from fossils found throughout the world, in their reconstructed environment. The user's knowledge is also put to the test in games such as matching an ancestor to a descendent, uncovering an embedded fossil and identifying creatures that existed in a particular time period.
www.educcomp.co.nz
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 Imagination Express Ocean CD
by Edmark
Overview
The fascinating shores and depths of Ocean, a marine learning destination in the Imagination Express series, inspire kids to create interactive stories. Ages 6 to 12.
- Key Features and Benefits
- Make own movies with 2 kinds of animation--turn on sticker animations
- Smart Stickers go where they´re dragged
- Auto-sizing stickers grow as they move to front & shrink into background
- Print story books in color or black & white, or watch movies come to life on-screen in View Mode
- Use Sound Tools to make stickers sing, laugh, speak or bark-to narrate story page by page- & to choose theme music to set the mood
- Story Idea videos will spark the imagination
- Adult Options let parents customize program to suit every child
- Dear Parents offers advice about encouraging children´s writing
- Ocean Fact Book includes fascinating facts about marine life & environmental issues
- Program´s tools inspire kids to become enthusiastic writers, animators, sound producers & publishers
What's Required
PC: 386 processor or faster; 8MB RAM; Windows 3.1 or greater; 4MB hard drive space; SVGA display; 2X CD-ROM drive
MAC: 68030 processor or faster; 8MB RAM; Mac OS 7 or greater; 4MB hard drive space; 13" monitor
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 Ocean Planet Smithsonian
by Discovery
Mac #714733 & Windows #714717
Product Information:
Experiential exhibits show you how the sun, earth, moon and oceans connect to form a complex system of atmosphere and weather. Explore the breadth of undersea activity and the issues that challenge aquatic life's delicate balance. Companion to The Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Planet Exhibition. Ages 9 and up.
System Requirements: Mac
Macintosh Performa, Centris, Quadra or PowerMac series computer, System 7.0 or later, double-speed CD-ROM drive, 4MB of RAM (8MB recommended), color monitor with at least 256 colors.
System Requirements: Windows
386-16 MHz or higher, Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later, 4MB of RAM, double-speed CD-ROM drive, color monitor with at least 256 colors, Windows compatible sound card, mouse.
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 Sharks!
Win95/Win98/Win3.1 Packaging: Jewel Case
Publisher: Discovery Channel Product Code: SHARKSPJ
Dive in and experience the awesome speed, power and diversity of sharks around the world. For over 400 million years, sharks have prowled the world's oceans, yet we are just beginning to learn about this ancient creature. Discovery takes you deep into the fascianting world of sharks on this remarkable disc. Compare the diverse species - from the 6' cookiecutter shark, to the 45' whale shark. From dogfish sharks, which travel in packs of hundreds, to great whites which travel alone. Hear from shark experts about how sharks have evolved. Learn what to do if you encounter a shark. Sharks! challenges the myths and reveals the fascinating truths about nature's most efficient predator.
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 Ocean - Origins of Life
by SEC Multimedia
Windows: Win 95; Current Release: 1.1;
Dive into the depths of the primitive ocean and experience an explosion of life! A "must" for everyone who is interested in the evolution of life or enjoys the best that multimedia can bring to the computer screen!
Winner of numerous awards including the 1997 Milia Award for the best educational CD-ROM title.
Introduction
- Quite simply the most remarkable and captivating CD-ROM title on the origins of life in the oceans. This title offers the user an interactive, spectacular discovery of the origins of life and their evolution in the ocean from the dawn of time and spanning nearly 500 millions years covering the Cambrian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Based on scientific data and supervised by the renowned palaeontologist, Daniel Goujet, this title plunges the user through a time machine to the beginnings of life in the oceans.
- Facinating journey
- The Origins of the Ocean offers a fascinating journey into the unknown pre-historic world and is a superb example of the best that multimedia can bring to the viewer. Accompanied by original captivating music, the user sees kinetic animated images of extinct species recreated from fossils found throughout the world. It shows how these species interact with the environment as well as with each other and how species evolved through 500 million years of evolution. This is a "must" for everyone who is interested in the evolution of life or enjoy the best that multimedia can bring to the computer screen. The 3-D rendered videos are the best examples of multimedia work seen in a published CD-ROM title.
www.educcomp.co.nz
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 Sub Culture
Win95/Win98 Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: UbiSoft Product Code: SUBCULTPR
Dive into Sub Culture and submerge yourself in a stunning 3D underwater world where scheming pirates, giant sea creatures, and warring factions threaten your miniature submarine. Can you discover the cause of your home's destruction?
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 Pacififc Ocean Life
Windows 3.X or Windows 95/98/NT
This Screen Saver contains dramatic pictures of various underwater life just off the coast of beautiful Catalina Island, California. The pictures are taken by talented professional deep sea divers trained in capturing underwater life at its best!
Vendor:
Screen Team, Inc.
303 Broadway #204
Laguna Beach CA 92651
United States
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 Fishes of the Caribbean
Everything you want to know about Caribbean fish, with full details on 135 fish from 51 families, and reference to 275 others.
Learn about their identities with any special distinguishing marks, and hear their correct scientific names. Learn about their habitats and behaviour, or click through the stages of their life cycles, from juvenile to adult.
For the broader picture, The Marine Environment menu tells which fish live where and why. Select the beach, mangrove swamp, lagoon, barrier reef, shallow fore reef, drop-off or open ocean - and take a full-motion video tour of the habitat of your choice.
www.divernet.com
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 Fishes of the Red Sea
Everything you need to know about Red Sea fish, with ID photos and video clips. Learn about a fish's habitat, behaviour and any special distinguishing features. An audio command gives the correct pronounciation of its scientic name.
Sub-menus delve into fish anatomy, poisonous and dangerous fish, additional aspects of fish behaviour - and why the fish are so often brightly coloured.
Take off on the programme's guided tour of the Red Sea in preparation for your own diving holiday. Or, for fish in the home, pore over aquarium tips for more than 120 species.
www.divernet.com
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 The World of Sharks
The most complete reference work on sharks ever produced, and the first of its kind on CD-ROM with details of more than 75 of the world's most common sharks, plus 15 of the major rays.
Informative text, drawn from leading shark experts, is matched by superb images from top diving photographers and videographers.
Select detailed shark descriptions and biology; behaviour analysis and population distributions worldwide; personal accounts and other stories; sharks in aquaria; a special 'hall of fame' headed, inevitably, by the Great White; plus quizzes and games to keep you amused and informed.
www.divernet.com
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 The World of Whales & Dolphins
The most complete reference work on the world's cetaceans available on CD-ROM, this unique disk draws on the world's best experts, photographers and videographers for its informative texts, superb still images and full-motion video, accompanied by detailed illustrations and audio 'sound-bites'.
Delve into a photo gallery, library, science section and more for descriptions and biologies of individual species, information on the evolution of whales and dolphins, and how they are distributed around the world.
A quiz, personal accounts and other stories complete this leading guide to the ocean's most intelligent creatures.
www.divernet.com
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