23 God's Grace - The Ark

The ark is measured in cubits. The traditional definition of a cubit is the length of a grown adult mans fingertip to his elbow. This can have many measurements depending on the man’s size. Traditionally it ranges from 17.5 inches to 25 inches with 18 inches being the norm. Therefore with a length of 300 cubits and breadth of 50 cubits and a height of 30 cubits we have 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft. This would yield a displacement of 24,000 tons; 1,400,00 cubic ft. of space inside equal to the capacity of 550 livestock railroad cars. The Titanic was 882 Ft long and displaced 46,000 tons. It was over two times larger. A vessel of this size would be hydrodynamically stable. As the center of gravity pushed downward the buoyancy would be pushing upward. It could be tilted to any angle just short of 90º with an immediately righting of itself. It would align itself parallel with the direction of a major wave advance and experience minimum pitching most of the time. Even in giant waves it would be impossible to capsize.