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The 70-meter-long (230-foot) ship was being towed out of the harbor Friday morning by tugboats when "several things went wrong" according to a statement from Ark of Noah.
While maneuvering out of the harbor, the ark crashed into a crane that was protruding from the coast vessel, taking out an entire side of the wooden exhibition ship and damaging the vessel also.
Video footage captured the crash as it happened from a distance, but pictures showing the aftermath reveal the full extent of the ship's damage.
Nobody was injured in the collusion but the ark, which acts as a museum, will be staying in the harbor until repair work can be carried out, although the statement added "we don't know how it will be fixed yet".
The ship was one of two arks built by Dutch carpenter Johan Huibers over a seven year period, after he dreamed of a flood in his hometown. Since then, according to The New York Times, more than a million people have visited the replicas to see domesticated animals like llamas, ponies and rabbits.
So it finally stopped raining, the sun sorta came out, the waters started to recede and the world began to dry out.
One day a while later Noah kicked down the gangplank and in his stentorian voice bellowed, "Go forth and multiply"; which they did.
A couple days later he was sweeping up the joint and spotted a couple of small snakes in a corner.
"Hey, what're you guys doing still here ? ? I said, 'Go forth and multiply'."
"We can't, we're adders."
He stopped and looked at them for a second, then said, "I'll be right back, don't go anywhere," and headed off into the forest.
He chopped down a couple of small-ish trees and whipped up a cute little picnic table which he promptly hiked back to The Ark and set it down beside the adders.
That done, he put them both on top and said, "There, now you're good . . ."
They looked at each other, looked up at him and looked back at each other . . .They didn't get it . . .
'What ? ? You guys have been on this boat so long you've forgotten adders can multiply on log tables ? ?"