When he was 33 years old in 1971, Johan Huibers, a devout Christian Dutch businessman and carpenter who made a fortune building storage spaces, had a dream that a fierce storm-tide flooded the entire province of Nood-Holland in the Netherlands where he lived. This motivated him to build an ark. His first attempt was a half-size version he built with his own hands, taking one-and-a-half years to complete at a cost of over one million dollars. 230 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 43 feet high, it was constructed of wood mounted on a metal barge and designed to be towed through the country’s canals. A few years later, Huibers and eight helpers built a full-size version measuring (390 feet long, and 75 feet high) at a cost of $4.5 million.

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