Watch the FLIP in action as all its fixtures, from generators to toilets, turn 90 degrees together with the immense vessel THIS is the incredible moment the world’s weirdest ship deliberately capsized ...

It may look like it’s capsizing, but the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only vessel out there that can operate both horizontally and vertically. It was designed to “flip” at sea so that ...

Shaped like a giant baseball bat, the 700-ton FLIP, or Floating Instrument Platform, is a Navy barge operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Once towed to a site, the vessel ...

FLIP is towed to its operating area in the horizontal position and through ballast changes is “flipped” to the vertical position to become a stable spar buoy with a draft of 300 feet. Photo from MPL.

I came across this quite nifty research vessel recently and thought Ars might find it interesting, if only for it's engineering creativity. It's a 355-foot long craft that travels in a horizontal ...

THIS is the incredible moment the world's weirdest ship deliberately capsized itself and flipped vertically to become a futuristic ocean lab. FLIP, technically called the Floating Instrument Platform, ...