Yes maybe even hundreds of times over
the earth recovers from a flood by growing over the area. usually the water washes away.
The amount of water on Earth is finite - most of it is held in the oceans. For a flood to occur, it has to rain; for it to rain, the water in the oceans has to evaporate to form clouds. Floods can occur in limited regions when the rainfall is much greater than normal, but the water soon runs off, back into the ocean. Of course, it would not be possible for a flood to cover the entire earth, both because there is not enough water and because the floodwaters would run back into the oceans so quickly.
The earth was potentially all water
Deep enough to float your boat.
According to the story of Noah, the earth was flooded to a depth of several kilometres, certainly enough to cover Mount Ararat (5,137 metres or 16,854 feet high) and presumably enough to cover the Himalayas, so that all humans would be destroyed, other than those on the Ark. This huge volume of water does not presently exist on earth and must have come from somewhere. The Bible says that it rained for forty days and forty nights. What the ancients did not understand is that for it to rain, water must first of all evaporate from the oceans, so that no matter how long it rains, the total volume of water on earth does not increase and flooding can only be local. The Bible also says (Genesis 7:11) that the fountains of the deep were broken, allowing extra water to well up. Again, the ancients did not realise that no such volume of water ever existed, and that if fountains did well up, the vacuum left behind would have to suck the water back down. The biblical explanations do not accord with science, and we can not know how God flooded the earth. We can only accept that the biblical Flood never really happened.
For nearly one year
If we choose to believe that the biblical Flood was a real, historical event, we must be unable to explain how the earth was dried or where all the water went. Certainly a breeze would not be enough to help and, in any case, any water that evaporated would simply come back down as rain.
No. There is not enough water locked up as ice to completely flood all of the land all around the world.
is all the water of the flood still in the earth?
Ther is insufficient water to inundate the earth. If plate tectonics ceased, a billion years might be enough to erode continental land masses below sea level.
The total volume of water on Earth is less than 1,500 million km3. The overall volume of the Earth is 1,100,000 million km3. The percentage of water by volume is therefore about 0.1%This is by comparison a much smaller percentage of water than is found on Europa
It basically wants to push (displace) water away from underneath it. Since the volume of water is always much larger than the actual ship, it will never be able to displace enough water to sink. That is - unless it's damaged below the water-line so water can flood in.