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Warren Currie 🦠🦐

[EDIT] FLIP is saved!
newatlas.com/marine/flipping-f
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Well it had to happen eventually. is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for research. Launched in 1962.

maritime-executive.com/article

Three images of a ship flipping upright in the ocean. The back of the ship is the only thing sitting vertical in the water in the last image, with many platforms to deploy instruments on. Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Aug 09, 2023, 06:44 PM·Public·Tusky
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