According to a report in early April, it has been demonstrated that the design of Noah’s Ark was just right for the job.
A group of Master’s students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Leicester University studied the exact dimensions of the ark as set out in Genesis 6.13-22. They are confident that it would have handled the weight of 70,000 animals without sinking.
God instructed Noah to use gopher wood to build a boat that was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. By taking the average of the Egyptian and Hebrew cubit as 18.98 inches, the ark would have been 472 ft long.
