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.
Noahs 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 arks trip to Brazil, the barge will likely begin to bring Noahs 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 Bibles 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.
Perhaps the Sumarian boat in Gilgamesh would be more seaworthy?
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- Holds more than 5,000 people at once
- 95 feet wide (29 meters)
- 410 feet long (125 meters)
- 75 feet tall (23 meters)
- 5 decks
- 2,500 tons (5,000,000 pounds)
Biggest mistake in history was Noah failing to swat those 2 mosquitoes.
120 years or so to build the thing.
Tells me they didn’t build it the way Noah built the ark.
Wasn’t it built with shit’em wood?
Gopher wood, which scholars consider to be cedar.
“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.”
While we pick on the steel reinforcements - It’s important to remember that when the Ark was built, such nonsense as land wasn’t an issue to navigation.
I think it’s appres-peux that California should be it’s destination. Nothing in California is a destination for God’s will.
A wise man would NOT try and cross the Pacific in that tub.
The Ark wasn’t really made for navigation. It floated where The LORD willed.
ML/NJ
The ultimate prepper.
I'm calling Fake on this Ark.
Built with “cedar” wood because they had to go to sea you see.
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