Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail ...

In the simplest terms, ships float because their weight is less than the weight of the water they displace. If you've ever ...

Floating is when something stays on top of the surface of the water, like a boat. Sinking is when something drops beneath the surface of the water and falls to the bottom, like a stone.

FLIP, the FLoating Instrument Platform, was not a ship, but a 355-foot-long research platform that can be deployed for oceanographic ... FLIP could be towed to out to sea in its horizontal position ...