Since it had three decks (Gen. 6:16), it has a total deck area of approximately 95,700 square feet (equivalent to slightly more than the area of twenty standard college basketball courts), and its total volume was 1,396,000 cubic judge. The gross tonnage of the Ark (which is a measurement of cubic space rather than weight, one ton in this case being equivalent to 100 cubic feet in usable storage space) was about 13,960 tons, which would place it well within the category of the large metal ocean-going vessels today (John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, The Genesis Flood, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishers, p. 10).
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