DULUTH, Minn.– 48 Coast Guard members boarded the SPAR in Duluth Tuesday.  The 235-foot buoy-tender vessel is able to slice ...

Originally designed as a floating buoy to acquire oceanographic information, the main component of a spar facility is the deep-draft floating chamber, or hollow cylindrical hull ...

THUNDER BAY — Icebreaking operations have started at Thunder Bay. The US Coast Guard cutter Spar arrived in port Tuesday for ...

This turned FLIP into a “spar buoy,” a tall, thin, weighty structure designed to be uniquely stable and resistant to wave motion. FLIP was built in 1962 to help study long-range sound propagation for ...

THUNDER BAY — Icebreaking operations have started at Thunder Bay. The US Coast Guard cutter Spar arrived in port Tuesday for ...

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 ...