Marine salvage expert and author · Person
Marine salvage expert and author of The Ark of Noah (1988) who championed, then publicly doubted, the Durupınar site.
4 disputed · 1 debunked · 1 supported
New Scientist reported that Justice Sackville found some of Allen Roberts' Ark claims were false but ruled his activities were not "trade or commerce", rejecting Plimer's complaint; Fasold was awarded A$2,500 over a copied diagram.
Geologist Lorence Collins and David Fasold concluded in the Journal of Geoscience Education that the formation is a natural doubly plunging syncline and the "anchor" stones are local andesite.
David Fasold returned to the site with Australian geologist Ian Plimer and concluded the formation was not a boat, suggesting ancient people had mistaken it for the Ark.
In a Deseret News interview, David Fasold said a Turkish farmer named Reshit found the formation in 1948 and that he had backed away from Ron Wyatt years earlier.
David Fasold's book argued the Durupınar formation is the fossilised remains of the Ark and linked a nearby peak locally called Cudi to the Qur'an's al-Jūdī.
Ron Wyatt, David Fasold and geophysicist John Baumgardner surveyed the formation with ground-penetrating radar and a "frequency generator", reporting a regular internal structure.