The Office of Naval Research’s incredible ‘flipping’ vessel, has been saved for ocean science
R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), a pioneering research vessel operated for more than fifty years by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was decommissioned in August 2023 and towed to Mexico to be scrapped. Or so we thought. Known for its unique design, this remarkable platform could ‘flip’ …