Posted on 04/29/2016 1:49:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Dutch-built ark plans to travel the world and stop along California's coast.
Noah’s Ark will travel to San Diego, but not without making a few stops first.
Beginning this summer, the massive boat will be shipped by barge 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Fortaleza, Brazil during the 2016 Olympic Games and later onto Rio de Janeiro for the Paralympic Summer Games, according to the Ark of Noah Foundation director, Herald Janssen.
Shortly after the ark’s trip to Brazil, the barge will likely begin to bring Noah’s Ark to the California coast. "We cannot promise how long it will take, but we will come to California," Janssen told CBS Los Angeles.
The life-size replica of the Bible’s ark weighs 2,500-tons, is larger than a football field and can hold approximately 5,000 people.
The five-story boat was built in The Netherlands by Dutch carpenter Johan Huiders as a religious attraction. The ark acts as an interactive museum and even includes life-size replicas of animals.
Huiders partnered with the Ark of Noah Foundation to raise money for the around-the-world voyage.
Although it is too early for Janssen to say when the ark will arrive in San Diego, he does believe it will make it to California eventually.
I would presume repairs would be made by ark-welding
Punster supreme form!
RE: “I would presume repairs would be made by ark-welding”
And insured by Joan of Ark.
> “What did Noah feed the lions on the ark?” He fed them the floating bodies of the dead sinners.
— The Big Bang Theory: The Maternal Combustion
And Joan Van Ark.
Beginning this summer, the massive boat will be shipped by barge 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Fortaleza, Brazil during the 2016 Olympic Games...Y'know, because, even without being loaded with animals, it won't survive the open seas. What's that tell ya?
Music provided by the Ark Angels.
That Noah was a heckuva boatmaker?
It will be full of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus
Maybe real animals would have given it necessary ballast. But then I’m no arkaeologist.
True.
I neglected to mention that any wood repair would have to be made using an Arkansas.
arkitect
Or a marine biologist.
Or a Coast Guard land guy!
What’s a cubit?
;’)
From a 2012 Daily Mail article: "As it weighs in at almost 3,000 tons and is made from Swedish pine reinforced with steel, it may be hard to believe that the ark is, in fact, seaworthy."
What's that tell ya?
Where did Noah get the steel?
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