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- Code Number:
- TSWV03P04_09
- Title:
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FLIP Ship, Naval Base Point Loma
- FLIP is an acronym for Floating Instrument Platform. it is in fact a 355 foot long specialized buoy. As an open ocean research vessel, it is capable of pitching backwards 90 degrees, and reaching to 300 feet below the water line. This glorified buoy is used to study wave height, acoustic signals, water temperature and density, and for the collection of meteorological data.
In order to maintain silence for the various research activities, FLIP has no engines and needs to be towed to open water, where it can be either anchored or drifts freely doing its research. This vessel usually carries up to eleven scientists and houses a crew of five.
The Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography created FLIP with funding from the Office of Naval Research (TRF). The Gunderson Brothers Engineering Company in Portland, Oregon launched FLIP in June 1962. (In 1995, FLIP received a $2,000,000 modernization.)
FLIP weighs 700 long tons (711 tonnes). It operates worldwide but the normal operating area is the west coast of the United States.
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- Wernher Krutein
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