Floating Instrument Platform - FLIP

government -> research -> U.S. Navy

The Floating Instrument Platform, FLIP, is a 355 foot long manned spar buoy designed as a stable research platform for oceanographic research.

FLIP is owned by the US Navy and was conceived and developed by the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Taxonomy government -> research -> U.S. Navy
Lat / Lng 32.869350 / -117.271332
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Last updated: 2008-04-12 20:52:53