It was a ship built by the desire of one man: Nephi. Its story is told in a book reckoned as true by less than one percent of the world's population, as interesting by some, a fantasy by many and an absurdity by just as many. Two thirds of the world's population may have never heard of Nephi nor the voyage of his family six hundred years before Christ. One man, Dr. Alma Carlisle, a marine acheologist, is determined to find the ship of legend that so many consider as little more than legend. To do so, he is challenged by a group of archeology graduate students to attempt to build and sail a similar ship, just to see if the legenday voyage was possible. From the shores of a protected natural harbor in Oman, they and an Omani crew collect the materials, build the ship and sail off into a maritime miracle and an assurance by all that on some voyages of discovery, more hands on deck than mortal may be at hand in the affairs of men. Irreantum, translated to mean "many waters" is her christened name. The ship sails the Indian and Pacific oceans and into its own legend of faith-promoting discovery.
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