“The brother of Jared followed the Lord’s instructions for building ships, just as Noah did earlier (Genesis 6:14–16) and as Nephi did later (1 Nephi 17:51; 18:1).
“Verse 17 notes, five times, that the ‘barges’ were ‘tight like unto a dish’; that is, they were watertight, or waterproof” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 2:262).