Old COS? A liar? Really though, the Noah story is a small grit of truth wrapped in a lie, like a pearl begins as a piece of grit in the clams mouth, that it surrounds with nacre, a beautiful pearl. People SAY they want to know TRUTH...until their own religious myth is shown for what it is, a myth.
Think of it though, all these centuries pakistani children, ie, arabs, jews, all who claim descent from abraham, have been taught this myth as if it was truth. Bible pounders insist that everything herein is TRUTH. Yes, mostly right but the noah myth is just that : a myth cooked up by pakistani sheepherders around a campfire in iraq 5000 years ago, based upon an old but true story of a hurricane survivor. They themselves would be astonished that this fish story they cooked up(Mt Ararat, animals 2 by 2, etc)would be taught in christian sunday schools 5 millenia later. If they had known about Mt Everest, noah’s ark hunters would be climbing all over its peak now.
Truth is where Sherlock Holmes finds it...
I rather favor the Gilgamesh connection, which may or may not be founded on the flooding of the Black Sea.
It will be profoundly informative when good archaeology can be done on the Black Sea bottom, but the cold, depth, and inky water strains current abilities.
Anyway, as the Mediterranean waters flooded in to the former location of a land-locked lake, people who had settled around the shores of that lake were forced to migrate to higher ground. It's possible that a large vessel which had already been started was used to transport settlers and their livestock on an impromptu voyage.
Consider: the ark had no means of locomotion, not even sails. It was only designed to ride out a flood, and settle down again when the slow inundation had come to an end; Exactly the conditions of the Black Sea flooding of about seven thousand years ago.