Not my ususal type of topic, but Noah's Ark has always fascinated me. And now that I have the NLT Bible, the most accurate translation available the old cubit nonsense has been sorted. The facts: the Ark was made of resin wood and covered with tar to seal it. It was 450 ft long, 75 ft. wide, and 45 feet tall with a single roof and air slots cut 18" below that roof. It did not have a superstructure but three decks inside (lower for animals, middle for humans, and upper for aviary and window). 7 pairs of eating animals were taken, 2 pairs of all others, and 7 pairs of birds. Noah, his wife, their three sons and wives lived on the middle deck and fed the animals from storage bays and 2 massive bronze water tanks equal distance apart for balance. The Ark never was rocked by the deluge but floated. Looked like a barge and was as heavy as a small aircraft carrier guestimated by military naval experts at around 22,000+ tons! It survived 40 days and nights of rain and then 150 days of high water. it drifted over to the Ararat range and settled there. It took another 7.5 months for the waters to recede and dry land to appear. Total time spent in the Ark was 13.5 months! An awesome boat it had been visually seen by F-86 pilots flying over the Ararat range and Turkey does not allow people to climb the mountains in search for the holy relic although recon has spotted it impaled at a lower elevation from constant slides. It is trapped in ice most of the year and is out of range for helicopters. People have taken wood from the boat for centuries but its position was constantly shifting with melts and sliding down the mountain until impaled. It remains in the same postition now. One has to ask the question of how the Bible can be a myth when that ship is at that elevation on a mountain!!! It could only have floated there b/c construction would be impossible at that height from that original time.