Designed by scientists at Scripps's Marine Physical Laboratory, FLIP was operated by Scripps Oceanography for the U.S. Navy. (FLIP was retired in August 2023.) Normally docked with Scripps’s fleet in ...

After making its “maiden flip” in 1962, the bizarre structure was used for over 60 years by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to gather vital observations about oceanic and atmospheric ...

FLIP diagram from Marine Physical Laboratory brochure. Research Platform FLIP was a 355-foot-long non-propelled manned spar buoy designed as a stable research platform for oceanographic research. FLIP ...

was in service for over 50 years under the stewardship of the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research and the Scripps Institution ...