FLIP is famous for its revolutionary, 90-degrees flipping design that gives it immense stability. 🤔 engineering
It looks like a ship. A huge, kind of weirdly-shaped ship, rising up in the middle of the ocean, or a bit like the upended Titanic as it sank.
Unlike the Titanic though, the crew doesn’t hang from the stern’s railings, and they definitely don’t fall into the water — even if the watercraft is fully vertical. : Fred Fisher and Fred Spiess. They were both researchers at the Marine Physical Laboratory division of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography — a department of the University of California, San Diego, that focuses on the study of oceans.
Fred Fisher reported these stability problems to Fred Spiess, who was the MPL Director at the time. Spiess, in turn, mentioned that Allyn Vine of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had once suggested upending a submarine to create a stable platform. Vine had come up with the idea after observing the stability of a navy mop floating in choppy water.
Although it can work anywhere in the world , FLIP is usually docked with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s fleet in San Diego Bay, remaining fully operational under the management of Scripps and the U.S. Navy. Officially, FLIP is not a ship, but an oceanography research platform that can switch its position from horizontal to vertical and vice versa. It flips at a right angle upon convenience, sinking more than half of its 355 feet long body under water.
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