The timber form the dead sea sounds like more of a hoax to me. Would would probably not have survived then4800 years the carbon dating says. There are stories going back to the crusader times so someone took a lot of trouble a long time ago and for what?
Randall Price....
From what I read on the internet.
Mr. Price appears to be a Ark Searcher/Explorer Competitor (Now) and has his own idea where the Ark is. (Jealousy involved?)
He seems to be more bitter about the 100K he says he is owed than revealing the recent find as a the Hoax. (pictures and proof of the Hoax?..rather than a story).
He seems to have retracted some of the original comments
he made in the email (accusation of hoax concerning the planting of wood on Mount Ararat)