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A spherical pod, named "Noah's Ark", designed by Chinese inventor Liu Qiyuan floats on a river during a test in Xianghe, Hebei province, on December 12, 2012. Liu, who has spent 1.8 million yuan ($288,000) on building six "Noah's Ark"s in 8 months with the help of his former furniture factory's workers, is working on his seventh pod. The 17 cubic-meter volume vessels were built to serve as lifeboats in the event of earthquakes, tsunamis and floods. (Reuters/Petar Kujundzic)

A worker welds steel bars as he constructs a spherical pod, named "Noah's Ark", designed by Chinese inventor Liu Qiyuan in Xianghe, Hebei province, on December 12, 2012. (Reuters/Petar Kujundzic)

Farmer Liu Qiyuan secures a hatch inside one of seven survival pods in a yard at his home in the village of Qiantun, Hebei province, on December 11, 2012. Inspired by the apocalyptic Hollywood movie '2012' and the 2004 Asian tsunami, Liu hopes that his creations consisting of a fiberglass shell around a steel frame will be adopted by government departments and international organizations for use in the event of tsunamis and earthquakes. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

Workers try to adjust the position of a spherical pod named, designed by Chinese inventor Liu Qiyuan, in Xianghe, on December 12, 2012. (Reuters/Petar Kujundzic)

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