The FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) was a pioneering research vessel operated for more than fifty years by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Scripps Institution of ...

Research Platform FLIP was a 355-foot-long non-propelled manned spar buoy ... About 50 tons of gear aboard the tow vessel were required for a deep mooring. Moorings in 4,000-meter water with a mooring ...

The RP FLIP – short for Floating Instrument Platform – was created by the US Navy in 1962 and it is still used to this day to carry out naval research. The vessel safely capsizes itself by ...

A new DNR research vessel, designed for a scientific mission on the Great Lakes, is currently being built in norther ...

plus the research platform FLIP, along our 110-meter finger pier and 85-meter quay wall, with complete support for cold-iron berthing including power, potable water, telecoms, broadband, and other key ...