Noah’s Ark on the move

Noah's Ark is alive and well and sailing round the Netherlands.

Noah’s Ark is alive and well and sailing round the Netherlands. Well almost anyway, but it’s not Noah’s original, but a one fifth scale replica built by Johan Huibers.

The 70m craft, together with a passenger load of horses, lambs, chickens, rabbits and other animals, will be used as a floating religious monument and zoo. It was built at Schagen north of Amsterdam, using American cedar and Norwegian pine, and cost around £0.7 million.

Mr Huibers stresses that, despite global warming, he doesn’t believe that the world will be destroyed by a second flood. Nevertheless he does plan to build a larger Ark when funds permit.

 

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