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| Keywords: FLoatingInstrumentPlatform.jpg FLIP Floating Instrument Platform is a 355-long floating oceanographic instrument platform It is towed in a horizontal position to its destination behind a ship then its ballast tants are flooded and it tilts to an upright position All but 55-feet of its length disappears below the water providing an extremely stable platform Since 1962 FLIP has been used for a broad range of oceanographic research including wave attenuation sound propagation scattering and reverberation seismic wave recording and measurement of internal waves FLIP resides at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography http //www onr navy mil/media/releases/image_gallery/images/flip jpg Office of Naval Research U S Navy http //www onr navy mil/about/privacy_notice asp PD-USGov-Military-Navy R P FLIP ship 1962 | ||||
