Did a World-Wide Flood in Noah's day Happen? (translation, Egyptian, genesis)
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why do you need twice the amount of rope compared to the depth? I'm assuming it has something to do with the weight pulling the ship down, or am i wrong?
Twice as much is my minimum, as my anchor is a heavy weight, but that is only for good weather...The recommended scope is at least 5 to one and 7 to one in stronger winds, depending on what sort of bottom you are above...(Mud, sand or gravel)
By looking at the illustration below it is easy to see why scope, (a multiple of the depth of the water) is required. One other factor when anchoring that has to be taken into account is the size of the tides in the area...There were tides up to 24 feet in one area I used to fish.
Originally Posted by sanspeur Are you trying to tell me that ships can anchor in water deeper than 400 feet with only the 400 feet of rope you claim that Noah had?....
Dear sanspeur, did you read the link I provided which contradicted your statement that a ship can't anchor deeper than 200 feet? It said the ships and barges used in the drilling industry anchor to depths beyond 2,000 feet.
Since the mountains were between three to four hundred feet in Noah's day, he knew to carry enough rope for the guestimated depth he would need to accord with the flooding of the world back then.
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Originally Posted by Rafius
One can only wonder how old Noah knew that the depth of water would be less than 400ft. He'd have been in trouble if the depth had been 420ft.
Give it up mate....he's an insult to the intelligence.
That is actually quite easy to answser. He didn't know the depth of water would be LESS than 400 feet if the mountains back them were 400 feet in height. And since he knew the world would be flooded, he would know to bring enough rope to anchor to AT LEAST for an allowance of that depth and probably threw in an extra couple hundred feet for insurance.
If I have insulted your intelligence, I feel it is my fault that I didn't make it simple enough for you to understand. I'm really trying to dumb it down for you. I am sorry. If you didn't get the above, here I'll dumb it down for you:
Rafius, today we are going to talk about Noah and how he knew how much rope to take along to anchor the ark inside the valley he built the ark in. Rafius, do you know what a rope is? Very good. O.K. do you know what a pile is for anchoring? Very good. You paid attention, didn't you! You get a star! O.K. now, the next step is, how did Noah know how much rope to take to anchor the huge ark to keep it from hitting the sides of the valley as it arose in the world-wide flood? First he would have to know how high the mountains were that were going to be flooded over. Since he knew the highest mountains on Pangea were no higher than four hundred feet, and since he knew the water would be just high enough above the mountains to drown all life, he just had to take enough rope along plus some extra to make it all work properly. Does that make sense to you? No? We will just have to hold you back another year.
Well, they used to manufacture rope from animal hair, but then Noah's animals would have gotten cold.
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Rafius, love it...that's so true, AshevilleNative
