MEDIA ALERT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2013
Trident Global Imaging, LLC
MEDIA CONTACTS:
David Ulloa, Trident Global Imaging (TGI), 352.229.8477 office or 903.238.6101 cell,
SKYPE uev-dave, david.ulloa@tridentglobalimaging.com,
http://tridentglobalimaging.com
Dee McHenry, TGI, 352.229.8477 office or 757.870.4517 cell,
SKYPE dee.mchenry, dee.mchenry@tridentglobalimaging.com,
http://tridentglobalimaging.com
Mike Campbell, Senior Environmental Specialist, Lee County, Division of Natural
Resources (DNR), 239.533.8109 office, mncampbell@leegov.com,
http://www.lee-county.com/gov/dept/NaturalResources/Marine/Pages/default.aspx
Advancing Technology Delivers
Web’s First Street-View Style Virtual
Shipwreck Tour
Mohawk Memorial Reef subject of world’s first stunning
underwater super-zoom 360° spherical photo tour
WHEN: Friday, May 3, 2013
WHERE: Virtual tour under In-Depth tab on Lee County’s Mohawk Memorial Reef
website at http://ussmohawkreef.com/
LIVE IN-PERSON & SKYPE INTERVIEWS: David Ulloa & Dee McHenry, principals,
TGI; Mike Campbell, Senior Environmental Specialist, Lee County DNR. Please call
in advance to book timeslot.
DOWNLOADABLE HI-RES PHOTOS/TOOLS: Multi media journalists and TV
stations, please click here (http://www.tridentglobalimaging.com/press.html) for
slideshow ready, cut & paste captioned images and split track VNR with MS-Word
story track.
Sunk as an artificial reef on July 2, 2012 by Lee County’s Division of Natural
Resources in 90 feet of water roughly 28 miles off of Sanibel Island on Florida’s
southwest coast, the USSCGC Mohawk was the United States’ first military ship
dedicated to veterans as a memorial reef. On May 3, 2013, Lee County created
another first when it rolled out its new Mohawk Memorial Reef website containing the
Internet’s first comprehensive interactive photo tour of an underwater shipwreck.
The tour was produced by Trident Global Imaging, a Florida company specializing in
providing cutting-edge underwater photographic services to government agencies,
industry and private clients. TGI’s underwater team shot over 900 photos covering
the main deck, bridge, smokestack and crow’s nest; the post production team
utilized 6 software programs to take the images through 10,000 processing steps,
creating a final tour comprised of over 130,000 image tiles. The resulting online
interactive tour contains 16 richly detailed 360° panoramas presented in multilayered, tiled resolution that permits zooming to view details. With an emphasis on
environmental education, the linked street-view style tour opens up underwater
shipwreck exploration to anyone who has a computer or mobile device connected to
the Internet.
The 165-foot World War II Coast Guard cutter “Mighty Mo” was well known for her
role in the D-Day invasion. With the ship’s replica guns, smokestack, crow’s nest,
bridge, and massive propeller, the Mohawk Memorial Reef is a premier dive
destination offering an exceptional diving experience. After Friday, she will further
secure her place in the history books by becoming the first underwater vessel
comprehensively photographed and presented online for virtual exploration by
countless veterans and enthusiasts around the world, anytime, anywhere, as she
sits in her final resting place in the Gulf of Mexico.