Not exactly.
The "flood" has largely been discounted as a real event that was concerned with real water. Both the word water and flood have been used symbolically for ages, and in particular in the Hebrew scriptures, to mean "peoples and nations" and huge "migrations" or amassing of large crowds such as armies.
The best interpretation of Noah's Flood to date can be found in the Freudian Bible Translation and Interpretation.
There, the story is assumed to be metaphorical. The "flood" is a first hand report of the sudden rise in the Modern Homo Sapien population about 40,000 years ago. This is confirmed by the science studies, and dovetails well with St Peter's statement that "a day is a 1000 years."
So, for 40 "nights and days," meaning 40,000 years, Modern Homo Sapiens, the "water," the peoples and nations, exploded,... population wise, as if a sudden flood or tidal wave. They apparently out competed Neanderthal Man, the dominate Hominoid before this, driving him away, and probably exterminating him in the most noble fashion and behavior common to Modern Homos.
The "ark" which is symbolic of a closed cube shaped box, refers to the skull of Modern Homo Sapiens. Inside was the "three floors" of the mind: the Conscious Mind, the Subconscious Mind, and the Unconscious Mind.
The rainbow of seven colors, which is mentioned, referred to the seven modes of thinking available to us, the seven spirits of Revelation 1:16, the seven psychological Freudian-Jungian Archetypal apparati: Id, Libido, Ego, Anima, Self, Superego, Harmony.
That Neanderrthal was without language, his vocal cords anatomically in the wrong place, he had never created names for the animals and wild life. In his absence and with the power to speak language, the metaphor tells us that Noah gave names to the animals... for the first time ever heard on the planet!
Anyway, the Freudian Bible Translation and Interpretation incorporates the whole metphor, nice and neat, right in the story. Brackets are used to fill in the ideas, and the whole interpretation is literally just a suggestion for the reader.
This is so powerful in that it makes sense, it avoids all the denigrating secular remarks and disparagements. AND... it even challenges them to be reasonable. To recognize that this is an ancient report, an eye witness report of an important biological event.
Gen. 6:1 And it came to pass, when men (hominoids) began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Gen. 6:2 That the sons of God (pre-Homo Spaiens) saw the daughters of men (Neanderthal) that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen. 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit (of Natural Law) shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh (and must adapt to my Reality): yet his days, (Neanderthal) shall be an hundred and twenty (thousand) years.
Gen. 6:4 There were giants (Homo Erectus) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (pre-Homo Spaiens) came in unto the daughters of men (Neanderthal), and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men (hybrids leading to Modern Homo Sapiens) which were of old, men of renown.
Gen. 6:5 And GOD, (the Reality of Universal Power) saw that the wickedness of man (including Neanderthal) was great in the earth, and that every imagination of (his abstraction of Reality) the thoughts of his heart (or his psyche) was only evil (and unrealistic) continually (as regards the process of adaption).
Gen. 6:6 And it, (the evolutionary process), repented the LORD that he had made man (all hominoids in general) on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart (that cataclysmic changes were to come).
Gen. 6:7 And the LORD, Almighty Universe) said, I will destroy man (of these types and species) whom I have created (to mentally, in analogy, abstract consciously a model and schmata of Universe) destroy them from the face of the earth (extinction!); both (this species and kind of) man, and (his idea of) the beast, and (his idea of) the creeping thing, and (his idea of) the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.