When your Noah's Ark replica crashes, it's pretty convenient when the Coast Guard boat is close by, right? Maybe. Here's an amusing Monday morning story for you... and the article confirms it: there were no animals aboard at the time of the collision!! Back in April, an Inquisitr article told the story of Johan Huibers, who constructed a replica of Noah’s Ark and intended on sailing it to Brazil for the 2016 Olympic Games. The Noah’s Ark replica that Huibers intends to take to Brazil is the second ark Huibers built, and the first Noah’s Ark replica, which is smaller, was being towed to Norway when it crashed into a Coast Guard patrol boat in the Port of Oslo on Friday morning, June 10, according to the New York Times.
Of course, the internet proceeded to blast out relevant jokes, such as the tweets featured here.
Huibers, however, was not laughing, and neither was Aad Peters, who bought the smaller Noah’s Ark replica from Huibers in 2010. Peters, a Dutch puppeteer, television producer, and philanthropist, had taken the ark for visits across the Netherlands and was taking the boat to Norway when the collision occurred. Huibers told the New York Times how upset he was about the crash by telephone from Amsterdam.“I’m shaking now. It’s a terrible situation. It’s an awful dream, to have an accident with the Ark of Noah.”
Huibers had built the smaller ark, his first, between 2005 and 2007 and said that the construction of the first ark had helped him tackle the task of building the second ark, which was built to a more biblical scale and much larger than the first ark. The second Noah’s Ark replica, which is scheduled to set sail for Brazil and the Olympics, is about 410 feet long, 95 feet wide, and 75 feet tall. The bigger ark has five decks and can accommodate 5,000 people at a time according to the NY Times. Both arks are on steel barges and must be towed.
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AND You might not believe it, but there's another Noah's Ark story today, this one from Kentucky.