Reply #22: Update issue aside, Google Earth doesn't show oceans.

[Xithras]

Google isn't going to waste the space on storing millions of square miles of empty ocean. Most coastlines fuzz out the water within a few hundred yards of the shore, and in only a few places it might go out a couple of miles. Most of the Earth in GE is rendered using a low-rez topo of the seabottom, showing you ocean trenches and undersea mountain ranges. There's no way to see boats on the surface...whether they were there four hours ago or four years ago.