David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the Durupinar Noah's Ark site in eastern Turkey.
Repudiating and then changing his views about the site, Fasold was a participant in a suit with Australian geologist and skeptic Ian Plimer against an Australian creationist group.
The suit, dubbed the "Monkey Trial II," was an important case in the debate between science and religion and its role in society.
Original source: Photograph created by Robert C. Michelson using an Asahi Pentax 35mm SLR camera with Kodak Kodachrome 200/24° film with permission of David Fasold (subject) License: CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated GFDL