FLIP is famous for its revolutionary, 90-degrees flipping design that gives it immense stability.
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.
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.
FLIP is equipped with Doppler sonars, hydrophones, sensors, and two fully-equipped science laboratories to analyze data. The labs are electrically powered by three diesel generators that provide around 340 KW of electricity. Normally, there are 11 scientists and 5 crew members on board. Overall, it is wrong to call FLIP a ship, because it’s not meant to sail. In fact, in order to avoid interference with acoustic instruments, no propulsion methods were included in the design of FLIP, other than a small hydraulic orientation propeller that can rotate the platform about its vertical axis.
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