Noah's 4th son? Islamic Truth or Canaanite Baal Myth?

Quran 11, 40-41 reads "Noah called to his son ... 'O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers.'
But he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." Noah said, 'There is no protector today from the decree of Allah, except for whom He gives mercy.' And the waves came between them, and he, Yam, was among the drowned."

According to Islamic tradition, Prophet Noah had four sons, and Yam, the youngest, chose not to believe in the message of Allah and refused to board the ark. Yam remained with the non-believers and perished in the flood along with them.

The exact number of those who sailed on the ark has not been determined in the Qur'an and Hadith. Ibn abbas reported that their total number was eighty, which included three sons of Noah, Sam, Ham, Yafith and their three wives.

However this story from Muhammad was plagiarized from a Canaanite Baal myth.
There is no Yamm in the Bible. Yamm was the Canaanite god of Floods. Yamm means Sea.

In the original Canaanite Baal version:
Yam is the sea deity, who turns into a tyrant and oppresses the other gods. Asherah, the mother goddess, attempts to reason with Yam, but he adamantly refuses to relent. Baal … kills the great sea serpent Lotan, which is associated with Yam. Yam also shares certain characteristics with Greco-Roman Ophion, the serpentine Titan of the sea, whom Kronos cast out of the heavenly Mt. Olympus.

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