SAN DIEGO — One of the most innovative research platforms used by Scripps Institution of Oceanography officially retired earlier this month after more than six decades in service, the research center ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel to explore the work behind the oddly looking Floating Instrument Platform. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel dedicated to sea geeks. Whenever you are curious ...

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, not only would he ...

I don't spend much time thinking about boats or marine research these days, as I gave up on the marine biologist dream when I was 9 years old and found out the plesiosaur was extinct. But when I run ...

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 ...

A dynamic era in naval oceanography recently ended as the iconic Floating Instrument Platform — popularly known as FLIP — was officially retired from service. Built in 1962 with funding from the ...

Tugs guide the Department of the Navy's Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) from her berth at the Nimitz Marine Facility in Point Loma, Calif. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released) Fifty-five ...

China has launched what it describes as the world’s first semi-submersible ultra-large floating marine research platform, a ...

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, ...