He said, "I will take refuge to the mountain which will save me from the water." He said, "There is no savior from God's decree except to whom He grants mercy." The wave came between them, so he was one of those who drowned.
Translation endnotes
[11:40-44] Noah's ark was a simple watercraft made of logs connected with ropes (54:12). The flood was limited to the Dead Sea region and Noah's people (7:59; 9:70; 11:25,36,89; 22:42; 25:35-39; 38:12; 40:5,31; 50:12; 51:46; 53:52; 54:9; 71:1- 11). The animals taken to the watercraft were a few domesticated animals in Noah's farm. The holy storytellers mutated the story, and with time, it was exaggerated into a global event. Perhaps public interest encouraged the storytellers to exaggerate a bit more, until it became a mythology about a worldwide flood. The mythology found its way to the Old Testament; three chapters of Genesis, chapters 6-8, are allocated to the story of a universal flood (See Genesis 7:21-23). The letters of the New Testament also refer to a worldwide flood (1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 3:6). Also, see 2:93; 16:103; 26:101-105; 71:1-28.