FLIP aided better understanding of the ocean, including how sound travels in it, and could move from a horizontal position to vertical while at sea
When Bruce Appelgate was in fourth grade, he read a book featuring world explorers. Among them was the FLoating Instrument Platform, or FLIP.
On Aug. 3, however, FLIP was retired after 61 years. It was towed to a dismantling and recycling facility, six years after its last research voyage and three years after officials determined that the costs to renovate it could not be justified,“R/P FLIP has existed for more than half the length of the institution’s entire history,” Scripps Oceanography director Margaret Leinen said in a statement.
Usually to get to depths with such stability, “you would need to use a submarine, which is very expensive and not always available for science,” he said. Because “it’s black in the ocean and everything uses sound,” developing an understanding of how sound travels in the sea was an early goal for scientists aboard FLIP, Appelgate said.
FLIP later would go on to facilitate studies of how the upper ocean interacts with the lower atmosphere. FLIP was considered a key mission enabler for research programs in meteorology, oceanography and ocean acoustics, said Tom Drake of the Office of Naval Research’s Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department.
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