This strange looking 355 foot-long ship is designed to partly capsize to carry out ocean research. The RP FLIP – short for Floating Instrument Platform – was created by the US Navy in 1962 and ...

WELLINGTON/TOKYO--Japan’s coast guard rescued one person in the search for a cargo ship carrying livestock that went missing in the East China Sea after issuing a distress signal as typhoon ...

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography issued a request for proposals (RFP) to select a shipyard for the final ...

The ship, the first British-built polar research vessel with a helideck, will be one of the most sophisticated floating research laboratories working in polar regions. NERC chief executive Prof ...