Friday, January 29, 2010

A longest Ship called FLIP to Study the Whale (5 pics + 1 animated)

A Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP)- Its is actually a ship which is a floating instrument platform and manned research vessel. its around 355 feet long and submerge one side of the ship under the ocean and another portion above the water surface to study the acoustics of whales and other marine mammals, the effects of seismic waves on the water, and heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean.







An Animated image to give you the idea of how it works in the Ocean... :


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