| Porthole 13 Dec 12

END of the world is no problem for Noah’s Ark. A Dutch businessman, Johan Huibers, has finally fulfilled his 20-year old dream, of building his very own Noah’s Ark. Just in time for the end of the world on 21 Dec this year, the Ark is 130m long, 29m wide and 23m high, and takes its design and dimensions, according to Huibers, from descriptions of the original Ark in the Bible. Rather than gathering two of each animal onboard however, Huibers is hoping to turn his enormous life raft into a tourist attraction to draw up to 3,000 visitors a day to where it is docked in the Netherlands.