Originally designed as a floating buoy to acquire oceanographic information, the main component of a spar facility is the deep-draft floating chamber, or hollow cylindrical hull ...

“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 ...

The Spar is a buoy tender which missions include navigational aids, ice breaking, as well as emergency response. It operates throughout the Great Lakes, but primarily in Lakes Superior and Michigan.

This turned FLIP into a “spar buoy,” a tall, thin, weighty structure designed to be uniquely stable and resistant to wave motion. FLIP was built in 1962 to help study long-range sound propagation for ...

FLIP diagram from Marine Physical Laboratory brochure. Research Platform FLIP was a 355-foot-long non-propelled manned spar buoy designed as a stable research platform for oceanographic research. FLIP ...

Xie, Surui Chen, Jing Dixon, Timothy H. Weisberg, Robert H. and Zumberge, Mark A. 2021. Offshore Sea Levels Measured With an Anchored Spar‐Buoy System Using GPS ...