Bruce Beach

Bruce Beach was a survivalist from the town Horning's Mills in Ontario who predicted a doomsday date, December 2002. It didn't go so well.

Ark Two


Intended to survive the coming nuclear Armageddon, the Ark Two is a fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach some 100km north-west of  Canada. It was constructed from 1980 until 1985 and is composed of 42 buried school buses.

Controversy
Throughout its history, Ark Two sparked legal conflicts from the Canadian government; the shelter was built without a permit because Beach failed to get one:

Beach also elaborated on the numerous court battles he went through:

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Ark Two is featured in an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, but it wasn't filmed because it was locked down by the fire department for being an unsafe fire hazard. Bruce Beach made an arse of himself by predicting the end of the world sometime in December 2002; the episode aired in January 2003.

Books

 * Society After Doomsday
 * TRIAD Individual Networking: Preparedness For Disastrous Times

Other pieces

 * Reconstruction of Society after Nuclear War
 * You will survive Doomsday