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FLIP vessels or technically referred to as Floating Tool Platforms. PHOTO/ GCAPTAIN
As reported through The Solar, FLIP or technically referred to as the Floating Tool Platform is a pilot analysis vessel operated for greater than 50 years through america (US) Military.
This distinctive 108 meter lengthy send is in a position to turning 90 levels in shipwreck stipulations at sea to supply a solid and cellular experimental laboratory.
Inbuilt 1962 with investment from the Workplace of Naval Analysis (ONR), FLIP helped generations of scientists and oceanographers higher perceive the mysteries of the sea.
Those come with inside waves, air-sea interactions, and long-distance sound propagation.
The entirety fixed at the platform rotates 90 levels when the send ‘capsizes’ within the sea, together with the entire apparatus, from turbines to bogs. Seems it is in the proper nook.
On the other hand FLIP used to be decommissioned in August 2023 and towed to Mexico for scrapping.
On the other hand, the seabed design corporate creating the following technology of underwater human habitats, DEEP, stated its group of workers would head to Mexico to avoid wasting FLIP.
“Our challenge is to create an aquatic humanity, through enabling our species to reside, paintings and thrive underwater,” stated DEEP Leader Govt Officer Kristen Tertoole.
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