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From Wikipedia [1]: "When flipped, most of the ballast for the platform is provided by water at depths below the influence of surface waves, hence FLIP is stabl
by mkl 3y ago
From Wikipedia [1]: "When flipped, most of the ballast for the platform is provided by water at depths below the influence of surface waves, hence FLIP is stable and mostly immune to wave action similar to a spar buoy." Its mass wasn't sitting on the moving surface, but largely surrounded by water that wasn't moving much.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP
- thom 3y agoHadn’t really thought about this before, but I suppose this is a fairly obvious result of Archimedes’ principle.
- Mistletoe 3y agoNeat thank you. That makes sense.
- puzzlingcaptcha 3y agoA more modern approach using that principle would be SWATH vessels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-waterplane-area_twin_hull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-waterplane-area_twin_hul...)