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Uncategorized Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 6:05 pm

Former Baywatch Star’s Quest For Noah’s Ark Cancelled By Rockslides, Kidnapping Threats

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Donna D’Errico’s epic journey in search of Noah’s Ark has ended on a less than triumphant note, as she and her expedition turned back, citing fears of kidnapping attempts should they continue their quest for the biblical artifact. D’Errico made headlines last week when she was injured in a rockslide on Mount Ararat, where she and her team believe the legendary ship came to rest. Photos of her wounds making the rounds on the Internet drew attention to the search. Proving that there is such a thing as bad publicity, though, that very attention may have undone the expedition, exposing D’Errico and her team to kidnappers. Apparently.

D’Errico, a former Baywatch lifeguard, BattleBots host, and Playmate of the Month, described her search for the Ark as a lifelong dream. That dream took a dangerous turn last week when she was wounded in a rockslide, nearly taking a tumble off of Turkey’s highest peak. Worried that the attention pictures of her injury received would render her too famous to be in Turkey and put her and her team at risk of abduction. Because there are are forces in Turkey who will go to any lengths necessary to ensure that no one learns the secret of the Ark.

Or, y’know, ransom or whatever.

Man, it’s too bad she’s a celebrity and thus had no other option but to put pictures of her injuries on the Internet, as required by law. While the expedition was forced to turn back, we may still get a chance to see all the work that went into the storied D’Errico Expedition on a television sometime soon. In what is surely a handy coincidence, a camera crew just happened to be tagging along to film every moment of D’Errico’s lifelong Ark-finding dream. Convenient, no?

Ark enthusiasts should take heart, though. D’Errico is back in L.A. right now, but she has every intention of ascending Ararat once more, convinced it’s where she’ll find the Ark, which, according to her research, “is broken into at least two, but most likely three, pieces.”

(via LiveScience, image via Facebook)

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  • Velexia Ombra

    Sigh…

  • Someguy

    The “thinking” (and I use the term quite wrongly) of those who believe in a global flood makes the average SyFy “original” movie seem plausible by comparison. For example, I was once told by a very devout Baptist that the water for the global flood was “evaporated” in the atmosphere until God wanted it to rain down and wipe everyone out. When I pointed out the pressure from all that water vapor would have made life on earth impossible, she just said it was part of God’s powers. She got really upset when I asked why, if God was already using magic to keep the water from killing everyone, he needed to use a flood at all instead of just using his powers to murder everyone (apart from the animals) instantly.

    I didn’t even get to point out the lack of geological evidence, the fact that the flood myth originated in other, earlier cultures, etc.

  • Anonymous

     @0926c62e763fe951b38df68e8b82fd1c:disqus :  That’s the devoutly religious for you.  I know, because I still can’t get my mother to see the light after all these years, despite her converting to Catholicism in order to marry my father, because my father’s mother and father were devout Catholics and would let my mother marry him only after she became a Catholic…  My mother was a Protestant(Anglican),
    And even then, she was devout.  Of course, she wanted me and my little brother to think freely and for ourselves, and explore everything.

     Hell of a note, eh?