An iconic ship that appears ... based firm. 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 ...

This strange looking 355 foot-long ship is designed to partly capsize to carry out ocean research. The RP FLIP – short for Floating Instrument Platform – was created by the US Navy in 1962 and ...

The United States Navy Military Sealift Command's dry cargo ship USNS Wally Schirra departs Hanwha Ocean shipyard after a seven-month overhaul at Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, on March 12 ...

was not a ship, but a 355-foot-long research platform that can be deployed for oceanographic research. Designed by scientists at Scripps's Marine Physical Laboratory, FLIP was operated by Scripps ...

The United States, Japan and the Philippines have staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South ...

It's taken us a long time to get into ... "When we finally start ramping up, the Navy is shocked that we lost members of our workforce." On the flip side, the Navy insists it is tackling the ...