Maritime Executive

World's Strangest Research Vessel Heads for Scrapyard After 60 Years

The Scripps Instition of Oceanography's innovative Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been towed off into the sunset for the last time. It may well have been the strangest, most recognizable ...
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China launches ultra-large floating marine research platform, state media says

China has launched what it describes as the world’s first semi-submersible ultra-large floating marine research platform, a facility designed for year-round deep-sea operations that sits at the center ...
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U.K. Firm DEEP FLIPs Over Former Navy Research Station, Rescues Platform from Scrapyard

Floating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, is partially submerged in the Pacific Ocean in 2012. US Navy Photo The former Navy research platform R/V FLIP has been described variously from its launch in ...
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Scripps Oceanography retires seagoing research platform after 61 years

LA JOLLALA JOLLA — When Bruce Appelgate was in fourth grade, he read a book featuring world explorers. Among them was the FLoating Instrument Platform, or FLIP. Little did Appelgate know that one day, ...
Maritime Executive

World's Strangest Research Vessel Saved from Scrappers to “Flip” Again

The iconic Floating Instrument Platform, known as “FLIP” because of its unique capacity to operate in either a vertical or horizontal configuration, has been saved from scrapping and is now in France ...