I remember reading about this ship in the Weekly Reader in elementary school. It was brand new back then. Had me as a very young fellow thinking about oceanography. Thanks for this info Sal. This thing needs to be preserved.
@@gus473 I recall seeing it in NG and 1960's encyclopaedias. It was state of the art, you recalling Jacques Cousteau has brought back some good memories thanks..
Husband (USN retired) was on the USNS Navajo out of San Diego in the 90's and they would tow the FLIP out to sea for a week, then back to Scripps. It's a really cool invention - glad they could save it.
It has to be the weirdest contraption I have ever seen in shipping. I have nothing to do with sailing or the navy, I just take an interest in powerful machines (am into train spotting and aerospace too). I also am glad it was saved, even if just for the weirdness of it! Students in loud Hawaiian shirts, thing of beauty Sal!
Your news makes me happy. I am fortunate enough to have “FLIPped” when I worked at the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1990-1993. The process of flipping is kind of crazy, and everyone aboard spends a few minutes straddling both the horizontal and vertical surfaces of the outside decks because there are no vertical or horizontal surfaces during the transition. One note about the ship being quiet: it’s not. Like any large vessel there are generators running constantly. The gensets are located below or aft of the narrow “bottle neck” between the part that looks like a ships bow and the long cylinder that submerges. There is a lot of computing and data recording gear on board that needs power, not to mention the ships instruments, electric lights, fresh water pumps and all of the usual equipment for a vessel with many crew on board. The reasons that FLIP doesn’t have any onboard propulsion are several. It would be both complicated and expensive to work around having to locate the propulsion equipment far forward on the vessel, and most importantly self-propulsion would take up precious space that was needed for crew or storage spaces. If I remember correctly, approximately 80% of the vessel aft of the bottleneck is flooded when vertical, and from personal experience I can attest to the crew, storage, and machinery spaces being cramped as it was. Ultimately it just comes down to simplicity of design and reduced cost to build and maintain. One of the Navy’s ocean going tugs is assigned to FLIP when it’s deployed, towing it to and from port and providing replenishment and personnel changes for long deployments.
This ship was in the news via the BBC in Britain in about 1964, because of its unique cspabilities, and it caught the attention of many youngsters, some of whom went on to nautical and hydrological careers. They're mostly retirees now, and it's great news to hear that FLIP still has another lease of life.
As an Ocean Engineer who worked for the Navy and was stationed at the Naval Ocean System Center and SPAWAR for 35 years I am happy to hear that FLIP has been saved. For more than 30 years my office window overlooked the FLIP pierside except when she was out on assignment. Thank you for reporting this. Also, you'll be happy to know that you're not the only one that goes to work in short pants and Hawaiian shirts. When I retired a few years ago I had a stable of 65 Hawaiian shirts.
One of the great interesting marine vessels from the 60s when I was in grade school in San Diego. FLIP, DSV Alvin, Trieste, NS Savvanah, USS Enterprise, etc.
I remember reading about FLIP in the mid/late 1960’s in a U.K. weekly kids magazine called Look and Learn - lots of diagrams with cut away sections. I always wondered what happened to it. Great that it’s getting a 2nd lease if life.
I am 76. Deceased friend of mine, later an electrical engineer, in the 70's when we were young, he was a maritime ship to shore communications officer working for Scripps. Operated/ maintained the station WWD in San Diego, and was on some of the Scripps ships, including flip
Sal this could be the coolest vessel you've brought to the table yet. Even better this craft will live on and make more contributions thanks to the vision of the new ownership. What a great story, thanks!
I remember reading about this as a kid. Good to hear she has been saved. She should never have been up for scrapping in the first place. If she was being retired, she should have been turned into a museum. I love that "Save her, don't come back without her"
That thing looks amazing - literally the kind of thing that you dream up when youre at school but think is completely impractical! Great to see it in reality!
So now she's "Le Fleep" 😂. We saw the dual sinks but not the dual toilets. Alors, qu'est-ce qui se passe? Great show, Sal - nice to see your protégés like you, professor. And thanks for letting us know the fate of FLIP. We recall seeing her while living in San Diego. But really? Scripps must have too much money to just let this gem of the sea go for scrap! 🙀
I remember reading research done on this vessel! Since I was just wondering about this ship's current status and future last night, it's really pleasing to hear this news this afternoon!
I've known about FLIP for quite some time, but was unaware that she was headed to the scrapper (Shame on me!). I'm really glad to hear that she's being saved from the cutting torches. And I must add that you have a fine looking group of students there.
I remember when FLIP was commissioned there was a big write up about it in the National Geographic magazine. The 300 foot depth it floated the hull below the wave action at the surface so you might have choppy seas but the crew area was very stable.
I remember reading about this vessel in the early 1960's in one of National Geographic's big coffee table books which I still have all these years later. A vessel that you never forget. Well done.
Thanks Sal. I remember as a child seeing a picture of Flip and being amazed. Built in 62 so I was 8 years old. It could have been in Life magazine at that time. 😊❤
My daughter had a 'dress up day - what you want to be when you grow up' at school this year and when not just as a teacher but as her favorite teacher and the teacher was very happy about it. As someone who has helped lecture at a university (single subject specialist), it is nice to know you have had an impact on people. Well done Sal!
I was a student intern at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, Point Loma while completing my MSME at SDSU. FLIP was a regular companion during lunchtime conversations with colleagues and mentors as we enjoyed the sun and ocean breeze from a picnic table near the docs. That ship is as simple and elegant as a design can be. It is great to know that others appreciate her and what she has to offer.
Sal, each video you make is a enlightening session and thank you! By the by, you should be selling the shirts in a new "merch" section of your channel. I like them just like your students! LOL
That’s an interesting vessel for sure …I had no idea it existed…thanks for doing this video about it Sal! Learned something new today…and that’s always a good thing!
I remember FLIP pierside at Point Loma while in the Navy, late 70's. A year or so later diving off the coast, saw her flipped up. Looked like an oversized bouy!😊 Glad she's been rescued!
Growing up in the San Diego area I became aware of FLIP at an early age. I was always fascinated by it and much to my delight got to have a tour of her at Scripps about 20 years ago. Needless to say I am delighted she will survive and go on to new adventures and discoveries.
I worked at NUC and NOSC during the '70s. FLIP spent a lot of time parked at the Scripps Pier which was just north of the lab. One unique feature of FLIP was when in spar mode (ie, vertical) she was pretty much immune to sea states.... very stable platform.
EXCELLENT VIDEO ON FLIP! I ACTUALLY DID A REPORT ON FLIP AND BIULD A MODEL OF HER , WHEN I WAS IN 8 TH GRADE ! BACK IN 1973. IM 66 NOW SO IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO! I ACTUALLY HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THAT SHIP! THROUGH OUT THE YEARS I HAVE TALKED ABOUT HER IN GREAT DETAIL. NOT ONLY DID I GET AN “ A “ IN MY SCIENCE CLASS . MY SCIENCE TEACHER PUT IT IN THE DISPLAY CASE IN THE MAIN LOBBY OF MY HIGH SCHOOL! I HAD ALWAYS LOVE THE WATER. THAT SAME YEAR I GOT MY FIRST 8 ‘ ALUMINUM JOHN BOAT. I WAS HOOKED ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY , AND THE OCEAN AS WELL! I HAVE HAD MANY DIFFERENT SIZE A TYPE BOATS EVER SINCE. MU FATHER WAS IN THE NAVY . THATS PROBABLY HOW I GOT HOOKED ON BEING ON THE WATER! WELL SAL, OR WHO IS READING THIS . I GUESS YOU CAN TELL I WAS A LITTLE EXCITED WHEN I SEEN “ FLIP! “ AS THE THUMB NAIL! THANKS SAL, YOU MADE MY , DAY AND MONTH!
When I was at UCSD in the 80s I met several people that had done science onboard. It was considered old and headed for the scrap heap back then; the must be some real romantics keeping it alive to this day.
Failures of scientific imagination at UCLA, color me surprised. Would you believe the truth? That funding for projects done at the school had to be routed through approval to pass consideration of FLIP, and so people were looking forward to not having to consider passing FLIP in to their grant-writing concerns, and the struggles between groups to deprive it of actually NEW studies to starve it into being abandoned and scrapped was much stronger than any logical basis should have been! Simply the effects of horrible academic structures at that scool. How do I know? I knew and worked with twenty years of graduate researchers and, especially, staff there. Truly a suck ass place to work, literally.
@@lance31415 This error does not detract from the conclusion. Once ONR had done all that they wanted to do with her, (Physical oceanography for hiding subs) she became an albatross. One of my professors from THE University of California (the one in Berkeley) did the preliminary design of her Back In The Day.
I started watching your channel about a year ago. And I've enjoyed it very much ever since then. Since I'm an amateurmarine person and I. Enjoy all your videos. Today's video was especially interesting about the flip. Thank you
Now age 75, I was on a scouting trip while in Jr. High and this ship was berthed near us in San Diego. Don't remember getting to go aboard but just getting to see it was really cool. Had to be pretty new at that time.
Always loved seeing her in San Diego, and was super sad when they announced plans to scrap her. Love to see her getting another chance to keep on FLIPing!
I saw this vessel back in 1969 tied up in Barbados. They opened her up for tour and some of our crew where fortunate to get aboard. The USS Ozark was a part of the Apollo 10 & 11 Atlantic recovery (secondary) operations. Good times. Shellback
We used to go sailing a lot in San Diego, and I remember going past Flip for years going in and out of the harbor. Glad to hear it’s getting a new life.
I was in the submarine service, and was stationed on a boat out of San Diego in the early 1990s. We used to regularly encounter FLIP, either being towed, or deployed in the vertical position. Quite a sight to see. Also used to see "Sea Shadow" running around off the coast of southern California.
It strangely makes me so happy that cool 'ol ship will keep going. I watched a documentary on it and man, it's a cool getup. Thanks for the awesome news/ship update!!
Read about the "Flip Ship" as a child about fifty years ago in a book called "Beneath the Ocean". Somehow I got the impression there was more than one of these vessels. Was a bit surprised a few years ago that there was only one! Glad she is going to get a new lease of life.
I, too, remember when FLIP debuted in the Weekly Reader. Fast forward and FLIP was alongside as I took my daily dog-walk out in Point Loma...alongside the Ellen Scripps research vessel and the seal/dolphin training pen...yes, the true Navy "SEALS". Looking forward to another young generation training aboard her!
Thank you so much for this story! I thought it was already gone. I’m pissed that the US was scraping this, and that even though it’s been saved is leaving the US. This was one of the first unusual gadgets of any kind I learned of as a kid, and never got to visit it, despite living in California.
Great news! I didn't know Flip was on the chopping block and the fact that someone saved her and that mission is fantastic. Thank you for reporting on this and this great Halloween news.
I remember learning about FLIP when I was in elementary school. I think it was during a field trip to Scripps. I was sad when I heard it was going to the scrapyard. I am happy it is getting a new life.
I can remember reading about her when I was in grade school & Jr. High School. And I am very glad they saved her. She is a too valuable research vessel to just turn into razor blades
Nice that you mentioned ECU! I've been living in Greenville the last 26 years. I enjoy your channel, I can keep up with things nautical- I'm a retired Navy Chief.
Thank you Sal for another informative video! This one struck a cord with me, as our mom would take us kids to Scripps Aquarium where they had a FLIP exhibit, then as a family we would sail past the Scripps docks on rental boats and see her tied up there. She was a new big deal back then. Now she's as old as me. So nice to hear she will have a new life in the Med. For me it almost cancels out losing the SS United States 🇺🇸 Thanks for cheering me up!
When I was a kid in the 70s, I had a book on oceanography. I found FLIP fascinating. Then I was stationed aboard ship in San Diego. Following the Navy, I realized that I passed FLIP every time we came or went from San Diego. She was just right there.
The last bit about your students Halloween Costumes made me smile. Out of all the options and ideas they could have gone with, they went with dressing up as their favorite professor.
Bravo!!! Of course, the US Navy should have saved it themself. IN 2014 I spent a few days on the FLIP doing atmospheric measurements. It was fun for sure. I was a little surprised at how grody it was - I did USN active duty and both the old tenders I crewed on were far more ship shape shape. I was not present for the "flip", therefore I didn't get the coveted "FLIP Diploma". However, I did have to LEAP, in sea state 4/5, from the support boat to the FLIP boat dock. That was dangerous.
Good news. It'll be quite a tow to go through the Canal and across the pond. Oceanographers now use tethered and drifting arrays to examine structure in the water column and upward-looking ACDPs have revolutionised the field further. No doubt there is still a place for FLIP and I hope you can sprinkle some content of its new life and the work to make it fit for putpose over the coming months and years. I wonder if you might also do some content on scientific vessels, ocean exploration (there's still plenty going on) and survey and supply around offshore instalations. Shipping is even broader than bulk, container, vehicle, cruiseship and extraction like fisheries etc. We're putting more and more infrastructure in the ocean, too. This ranges from more shoreside to oil, gas and windfarms, which are going into deeper and deeper water so that floating windfarms are now being realised. At the same time many areas are being automatied and robotised. Still, I do enjoy all you currently make and share as here.
Great story and glad to hear that FLIP is saved. And when you become another persons Halloween costume, you have truly reached elite status. Congratulations! My daughter and her friends dressed up as their high school physics teacher one year. All kidding aside, it is one of the highest forms of respect.
I remember reading about this vessel in a 1960s national geographic mag. When i was a kid. Really cool and so glad that it was saved from the scrappers torch!
I remember reading about this ship in the Weekly Reader in elementary school. It was brand new back then. Had me as a very young fellow thinking about oceanography. Thanks for this info Sal. This thing needs to be preserved.
Same here! Pretty sure there was a National Geographic item too (or it was part of a Jacques Cousteau article)....
FLIP was an early elementary school age memory. Great concept plus ongoing science projects.
I think i saw FLIP on 3-2-1 Contact. Might have misremembered, it was really long ago
Same here. I'm surprised that they made only one; it seems so useful. I'm glad it will find new life.
@@gus473 I recall seeing it in NG and 1960's encyclopaedias. It was state of the art, you recalling Jacques Cousteau has brought back some good memories thanks..
Husband (USN retired) was on the USNS Navajo out of San Diego in the 90's and they would tow the FLIP out to sea for a week, then back to Scripps. It's a really cool invention - glad they could save it.
I sailed on Mohawk!
It has to be the weirdest contraption I have ever seen in shipping. I have nothing to do with sailing or the navy, I just take an interest in powerful machines (am into train spotting and aerospace too). I also am glad it was saved, even if just for the weirdness of it! Students in loud Hawaiian shirts, thing of beauty Sal!
Your news makes me happy. I am fortunate enough to have “FLIPped” when I worked at the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1990-1993. The process of flipping is kind of crazy, and everyone aboard spends a few minutes straddling both the horizontal and vertical surfaces of the outside decks because there are no vertical or horizontal surfaces during the transition.
One note about the ship being quiet: it’s not. Like any large vessel there are generators running constantly. The gensets are located below or aft of the narrow “bottle neck” between the part that looks like a ships bow and the long cylinder that submerges. There is a lot of computing and data recording gear on board that needs power, not to mention the ships instruments, electric lights, fresh water pumps and all of the usual equipment for a vessel with many crew on board.
The reasons that FLIP doesn’t have any onboard propulsion are several. It would be both complicated and expensive to work around having to locate the propulsion equipment far forward on the vessel, and most importantly self-propulsion would take up precious space that was needed for crew or storage spaces. If I remember correctly, approximately 80% of the vessel aft of the bottleneck is flooded when vertical, and from personal experience I can attest to the crew, storage, and machinery spaces being cramped as it was. Ultimately it just comes down to simplicity of design and reduced cost to build and maintain. One of the Navy’s ocean going tugs is assigned to FLIP when it’s deployed, towing it to and from port and providing replenishment and personnel changes for long deployments.
Thank you. Fascinating insight.
Thank you so much for your eloquent explanation! Makes for great visualization aid!
Just make sure your depth gauge is accurate.
Thanks for the intimate details.😊
This ship was in the news via the BBC in Britain in about 1964, because of its unique cspabilities, and it caught the attention of many youngsters, some of whom went on to nautical and hydrological careers. They're mostly retirees now, and it's great news to hear that FLIP still has another lease of life.
As an Ocean Engineer who worked for the Navy and was stationed at the Naval Ocean System Center and SPAWAR for 35 years I am happy to hear that FLIP has been saved. For more than 30 years my office window overlooked the FLIP pierside except when she was out on assignment. Thank you for reporting this. Also, you'll be happy to know that you're not the only one that goes to work in short pants and Hawaiian shirts. When I retired a few years ago I had a stable of 65 Hawaiian shirts.
Which Navy did you work for?
Ocean Engineer? Which ocean was your favorite to design and build?
I'm thrilled by this news. FLIP amazed and confounded me from the pages of children's books in the 70s.
Same to me!
Same here :)
One of the great interesting marine vessels from the 60s when I was in grade school in San Diego. FLIP, DSV Alvin, Trieste, NS Savvanah, USS Enterprise, etc.
@@spikespa5208You brought back memories, I was the same. I had a model of the USS Enterprise 65 with its cylindrical tower. 😊
I remember reading about FLIP in the mid/late 1960’s in a U.K. weekly kids magazine called Look and Learn - lots of diagrams with cut away sections. I always wondered what happened to it. Great that it’s getting a 2nd lease if life.
I think I saw the same article.
Best news I've seen all day.
This video is fascinating. I have never heard of this FLIP ship. Thanks for this story.
Gave me a grin to see the students. How fun!
This was really interesting. I doubt i would have heard anthing about it if not for your channel. THANKS!
I am 76. Deceased friend of mine, later an electrical engineer, in the 70's when we were young, he was a maritime ship to shore communications officer working for Scripps. Operated/ maintained the station WWD in San Diego, and was on some of the Scripps ships, including flip
Amazing what could be built back in 1962 without the aid of computers. Glad it was saved, it's a 1 of a kind ship. ❤👍👍
They had computers, not that there would be a need, this is not as complex as many pre 60s ships obviously.
Another amazing thing we built without the aid of computers was computers. 😱
@@nmccw3245 Touche
That was engineering’s golden age. Good luck designing a canoe today 😂
Sal this could be the coolest vessel you've brought to the table yet. Even better this craft will live on and make more contributions thanks to the vision of the new ownership. What a great story, thanks!
I remember reading about this as a kid. Good to hear she has been saved. She should never have been up for scrapping in the first place. If she was being retired, she should have been turned into a museum.
I love that "Save her, don't come back without her"
That thing looks amazing - literally the kind of thing that you dream up when youre at school but think is completely impractical! Great to see it in reality!
That’s great news. This is the only outlet with that news. Your students are the best.
It’s been one of those days that I needed to hear a GOOD NEWS story and the saving of FLIP filled the bill exactly. Thank you Dr Sal very very much.
I remember being impressed by this when I was a kid, and I just turned 65!
So now she's "Le Fleep" 😂. We saw the dual sinks but not the dual toilets. Alors, qu'est-ce qui se passe? Great show, Sal - nice to see your protégés like you, professor. And thanks for letting us know the fate of FLIP. We recall seeing her while living in San Diego. But really? Scripps must have too much money to just let this gem of the sea go for scrap! 🙀
Le Flip is French slang for the police.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
@@CricketsBay Almost. Maybe you're thinking about 'flic' ?
'Un flic' or 'un poulet' means a cop.
And also... 'a chicken' (2nd one) 😂
I remember reading about this back in the 70's. Cool ship!!!
I remember reading research done on this vessel!
Since I was just wondering about this ship's current status and future last night, it's really pleasing to hear this news this afternoon!
It is one of the greatest ships ever built. That's great news it's being saved from the scrap yard. Thank you for sharing with us 🙏 God Bless 🏴☠️
? You are high.
I've known about FLIP for quite some time, but was unaware that she was headed to the scrapper (Shame on me!). I'm really glad to hear that she's being saved from the cutting torches. And I must add that you have a fine looking group of students there.
I remember when FLIP was commissioned there was a big write up about it in the National Geographic magazine. The 300 foot depth it floated the hull below the wave action at the surface so you might have choppy seas but the crew area was very stable.
I remember reading about this vessel in the early 1960's in one of National Geographic's big coffee table books which I still have all these years later. A vessel that you never forget. Well done.
Great report, I remember when this first appeared in the sixties.
Thanks Sal. I remember as a child seeing a picture of Flip and being amazed. Built in 62 so I was 8 years old. It could have been in Life magazine at that time. 😊❤
Wonderful news that the FLIP will be renovated and updated.
A few things from 1962 are still around. I remember this from all my books on boats...
I also remember the NS Savannah from about the same time.
I'm even more impressed by the fact such an old and complex vessel (?) still works.
Your students love you !
Who else remembers when FLIP was new technology?
P.S. -- Great tribute from your students!
I was in elementary school when she went to sea.
Ships filling with seawater was never "new technology".
@@DonkeyHotey-l2e But not ending up on the bottom....?
It's clearly a reductive or trolling description of the vessel.
My daughter had a 'dress up day - what you want to be when you grow up' at school this year and when not just as a teacher but as her favorite teacher and the teacher was very happy about it. As someone who has helped lecture at a university (single subject specialist), it is nice to know you have had an impact on people. Well done Sal!
I remember seeing FLIP in the SOCAL area back in the 90s off San Diego in the flipped position. Always looked other worldly.
Love the costumes too funny. You’re the man Sal
Cool!! My father got a ride on FLIP once in the late 60s.
I was a student intern at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, Point Loma while completing my MSME at SDSU. FLIP was a regular companion during lunchtime conversations with colleagues and mentors as we enjoyed the sun and ocean breeze from a picnic table near the docs. That ship is as simple and elegant as a design can be. It is great to know that others appreciate her and what she has to offer.
Sal, each video you make is a enlightening session and thank you! By the by, you should be selling the shirts in a new "merch" section of your channel. I like them just like your students! LOL
I grew up in San Diego. It was always a treat to see it leave. Glad she found new life.
That’s an interesting vessel for sure …I had no idea it existed…thanks for doing this video about it Sal! Learned something new today…and that’s always a good thing!
I remember FLIP pierside at Point Loma while in the Navy, late 70's. A year or so later diving off the coast, saw her flipped up. Looked like an oversized bouy!😊
Glad she's been rescued!
Growing up in the San Diego area I became aware of FLIP at an early age. I was always fascinated by it and much to my delight got to have a tour of her at Scripps about 20 years ago. Needless to say I am delighted she will survive and go on to new adventures and discoveries.
I worked at NUC and NOSC during the '70s. FLIP spent a lot of time parked at the Scripps Pier which was just north of the lab. One unique feature of FLIP was when in spar mode (ie, vertical) she was pretty much immune to sea states.... very stable platform.
EXCELLENT VIDEO ON FLIP! I ACTUALLY DID A REPORT ON FLIP AND BIULD A MODEL OF HER , WHEN I WAS IN 8 TH GRADE ! BACK IN 1973. IM 66 NOW SO IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO! I ACTUALLY HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THAT SHIP! THROUGH OUT THE YEARS I HAVE TALKED ABOUT HER IN GREAT DETAIL. NOT ONLY DID I GET AN “ A “ IN MY SCIENCE CLASS . MY SCIENCE TEACHER PUT IT IN THE DISPLAY CASE IN THE MAIN LOBBY OF MY HIGH SCHOOL! I HAD ALWAYS LOVE THE WATER. THAT SAME YEAR I GOT MY FIRST 8 ‘ ALUMINUM JOHN BOAT. I WAS HOOKED ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY , AND THE OCEAN AS WELL! I HAVE HAD MANY DIFFERENT SIZE A TYPE BOATS EVER SINCE. MU FATHER WAS IN THE NAVY . THATS PROBABLY HOW I GOT HOOKED ON BEING ON THE WATER! WELL SAL, OR WHO IS READING THIS . I GUESS YOU CAN TELL I WAS A LITTLE EXCITED WHEN I SEEN “ FLIP! “ AS THE THUMB NAIL! THANKS SAL, YOU MADE MY , DAY AND MONTH!
Great to see an intervention to stop FLIP from going under ...
When I was at UCSD in the 80s I met several people that had done science onboard. It was considered old and headed for the scrap heap back then; the must be some real romantics keeping it alive to this day.
Failures of scientific imagination at UCLA, color me surprised. Would you believe the truth? That funding for projects done at the school had to be routed through approval to pass consideration of FLIP, and so people were looking forward to not having to consider passing FLIP in to their grant-writing concerns, and the struggles between groups to deprive it of actually NEW studies to starve it into being abandoned and scrapped was much stronger than any logical basis should have been! Simply the effects of horrible academic structures at that scool.
How do I know? I knew and worked with twenty years of graduate researchers and, especially, staff there. Truly a suck ass place to work, literally.
@@davidgoodnow269 I guess after 20 years you still can't tell the difference between UCLA and UCSD (where FLIP and SIO are).
@lance31415 The folks I worked with were out of UCLA, not SD, so fuck you anyway if you can't read but still write this _SHIT!_
@@lance31415 This error does not detract from the conclusion.
Once ONR had done all that they wanted to do with her, (Physical oceanography for hiding subs) she became an albatross.
One of my professors from THE University of California (the one in Berkeley) did the preliminary design of her Back In The Day.
Sal, you're a gem, it's no wonder your students appreciate you so much. Keep up the great work.
I started watching your channel about a year ago. And I've enjoyed it very much ever since then. Since I'm an amateurmarine person and I. Enjoy all your videos. Today's video was especially interesting about the flip. Thank you
Now age 75, I was on a scouting trip while in Jr. High and this ship was berthed near us in San Diego. Don't remember getting to go aboard but just getting to see it was really cool. Had to be pretty new at that time.
I have no idea it was that old. It's really is such a unique vessel.
😃
Always loved seeing her in San Diego, and was super sad when they announced plans to scrap her. Love to see her getting another chance to keep on FLIPing!
I'm absolutely nobody, but I remember learning of this vessel as a child and it's made my day to hear it's not being scrapped just yet. ❤
This ship was in a book I loved as a kid about modern engineering, alongside the bagger 288. I'm glad to hear it's still soldiering on.
I saw this vessel back in 1969 tied up in Barbados. They opened her up for tour and some of our crew where fortunate to get aboard. The USS Ozark was a part of the Apollo 10 & 11 Atlantic recovery (secondary) operations. Good times. Shellback
This is truly fantastic news!
What an incredible piece of design and engineering she is.
Absolutely a one off!
I remember seeing movies in elementary school about this cool ship. I hadn't thought about it in years. Thanks for the update on it!
when I first saw a video of this ship it was a wow - very unique ship
Was lucky to get a tour in SD. SUCH a cool vessel, very mind-bending and must have been a highlight to design/build her.
We used to go sailing a lot in San Diego, and I remember going past Flip for years going in and out of the harbor. Glad to hear it’s getting a new life.
Great To Hear This News. Thanks Sal for Sharing this. Dan in Southern Oregon.
Exciting News about FLIP. So glad to see that she will live on and continue to contribute to oceanographic research
I was in the submarine service, and was stationed on a boat out of San Diego in the early 1990s. We used to regularly encounter FLIP, either being towed, or deployed in the vertical position. Quite a sight to see. Also used to see "Sea Shadow" running around off the coast of southern California.
Scripps and Flip, memories of my youth. Glad she was saved.
It strangely makes me so happy that cool 'ol ship will keep going. I watched a documentary on it and man, it's a cool getup. Thanks for the awesome news/ship update!!
Great looking lass of students! Glad to hear that FLIP was saved! What a unique idea.
Love and respect from nz ❤
I always wished I could live on that vessel as my private residence. I didn't realize there was only one.
Read about the "Flip Ship" as a child about fifty years ago in a book called "Beneath the Ocean". Somehow I got the impression there was more than one of these vessels. Was a bit surprised a few years ago that there was only one! Glad she is going to get a new lease of life.
So glad it was saved! Worked at UCSD and worked with people from SIO and loved that they had this kind of research capability!
That is one strong boat, built in the 1960's. Said this before - This is a Great You tube Channel.
The existence of unique creations such as FlIP makes me happy.
Wow this is an amazing ship. I’ve never seen anything like it before.
I, too, remember when FLIP debuted in the Weekly Reader. Fast forward and FLIP was alongside as I took my daily dog-walk out in Point Loma...alongside the Ellen Scripps research vessel and the seal/dolphin training pen...yes, the true Navy "SEALS". Looking forward to another young generation training aboard her!
Thank you so much for this story! I thought it was already gone.
I’m pissed that the US was scraping this, and that even though it’s been saved is leaving the US.
This was one of the first unusual gadgets of any kind I learned of as a kid, and never got to visit it, despite living in California.
This is great news. I haven't seen anything on Flip in so long she slipped my mind. We are of the same vintage. Lol.
Great students of an obviously great professor!
My dad was a marine geophysicist, so I love R/V stories.
I always thought that Sal only wore the bright shirts for RUclips and nothing else!
Great news! I didn't know Flip was on the chopping block and the fact that someone saved her and that mission is fantastic. Thank you for reporting on this and this great Halloween news.
I remember learning about FLIP when I was in elementary school. I think it was during a field trip to Scripps. I was sad when I heard it was going to the scrapyard. I am happy it is getting a new life.
Electric self Propulsion might be a good upgrade
I can remember reading about her when I was in grade school & Jr. High School. And I am very glad they saved her. She is a too valuable research vessel to just turn into razor blades
A truly unique vessel, happy to hear that scrapping it was scrapped .
Nice that you mentioned ECU! I've been living in Greenville the last 26 years. I enjoy your channel, I can keep up with things nautical- I'm a retired Navy Chief.
I worked for Scripps for a couple of years, fun adventures on three different ships.
Hey Jerry! nice sailing with you!
Thank you Sal for another informative video! This one struck a cord with me, as our mom would take us kids to Scripps Aquarium where they had a FLIP exhibit, then as a family we would sail past the Scripps docks on rental boats and see her tied up there. She was a new big deal back then. Now she's as old as me. So nice to hear she will have a new life in the Med. For me it almost cancels out losing the SS United States 🇺🇸
Thanks for cheering me up!
The lack of wire on the handrail was giving me the heebie jeebies !
At 5:10 we see the flipped sink but we only see a standard non-flipped toilet. This is disturbing to me.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I had a book on oceanography. I found FLIP fascinating. Then I was stationed aboard ship in San Diego. Following the Navy, I realized that I passed FLIP every time we came or went from San Diego. She was just right there.
The last bit about your students Halloween Costumes made me smile. Out of all the options and ideas they could have gone with, they went with dressing up as their favorite professor.
Bravo!!!
Of course, the US Navy should have saved it themself.
IN 2014 I spent a few days on the FLIP doing atmospheric measurements. It was fun for sure. I was a little surprised at how grody it was - I did USN active duty and both the old tenders I crewed on were far more ship shape shape.
I was not present for the "flip", therefore I didn't get the coveted "FLIP Diploma". However, I did have to LEAP, in sea state 4/5, from the support boat to the FLIP boat dock. That was dangerous.
Glad that she'll continue on !!
Good news. It'll be quite a tow to go through the Canal and across the pond. Oceanographers now use tethered and drifting arrays to examine structure in the water column and upward-looking ACDPs have revolutionised the field further. No doubt there is still a place for FLIP and I hope you can sprinkle some content of its new life and the work to make it fit for putpose over the coming months and years. I wonder if you might also do some content on scientific vessels, ocean exploration (there's still plenty going on) and survey and supply around offshore instalations. Shipping is even broader than bulk, container, vehicle, cruiseship and extraction like fisheries etc. We're putting more and more infrastructure in the ocean, too. This ranges from more shoreside to oil, gas and windfarms, which are going into deeper and deeper water so that floating windfarms are now being realised. At the same time many areas are being automatied and robotised. Still, I do enjoy all you currently make and share as here.
Great story and glad to hear that FLIP is saved. And when you become another persons Halloween costume, you have truly reached elite status. Congratulations! My daughter and her friends dressed up as their high school physics teacher one year. All kidding aside, it is one of the highest forms of respect.
So glad it's saved. It was such a cool thing to read about it.
So wise , thank You. So Glad they Saved Flip
I remember reading about this vessel in a 1960s national geographic mag. When i was a kid. Really cool and so glad that it was saved from the scrappers torch!
Yay Sal! I love FLIP! Great piece! Thank you
Thanks! I love FLIP too!