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 ...

Some of the wildest designs in engineering are born from a simple need. In the case of the Floating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, that need was for a research station that could sit dead still in the ...

A U.S. Naval "flip ship", capable of standing on end in the ocean, is being rescued from the scrap heap for use as an ocean lab.

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 ...

Saronic Technologies, Austin, Texas, this week completed the hull flip of its first Marauder uncrewed surface vessel at its ...