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U.K. Firm DEEP FLIPs Over Former Navy Research Station, Rescues Platform from Scrapyard

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The former Navy research platform R/V FLIP has been described variously from its launch in 1962 to retirement in 2023 as a giant baseball bat, huge caterpillar, soda straw or floating bottle.

“Spar buoy” was the term the builder and the Navy used to described its shape.

And now Research Vessel, Floating Instrument Platform as it is best known, which officially retired after more than 50 years of naval service, has been rescued from a Mexican scrapyard for a new mission.

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