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Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

This image depicts the huge waterfall that formed when an oil drilling rig in Lake Peigneur punctured the ceiling of an underlying salt mine. The backwards flow

Massive Louisiana sinkhole just keeps on growing

Massive Louisiana sinkhole just keeps on growing A sinkhole that was triggered in August by salt mining for the oil and gas sector has grown to 12 acres, threatening 150 homes.

Pulling the Plug on Lake Peigneur – The Story of the Earth

Along with it went a second drilling rig located nearby, plus 11 barges and a tug from a canal that had connected the lake to the Gulf of Mexico, 40 acres of Lake Peigneur''s Jefferson Island, a

Secrets Of Louisiana''s Vanished Lake

On November 20, 1980, a Texaco oil rig accidentally punctured the salt mine beneath Lake Peigneur. This caused the lake to drain rapidly, creating a massive whirlpool that sucked in

Lake Peigneur drilling disaster in Louisiana video

The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster drained an entire lake, 65 acres (260,000 m2) of surrounding land and created the biggest waterfall of Louisiana.

The last remains of a house in Lake Peigneur

The last remains of a house in Lake Peigneur Louisiana. A Drilling accident cause a salt mine to collapse creating a sink hole. It consumed a drilling rig and 11

Oddly Louisiana: Lake Peigneur Sinkhole

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Lake Peigneur Sinkhole The lake was a 10-foot (3 m) deep freshwater lake popular with sportsmen until an unusual man-made

The 1980 Lake Peigneur Salt Mine Disaster! (Full Video)

On the morning of November 21 1980, a TEXACO Oil Rig team was drilling and noticed that their drill had seized up. The following video shows what 1 mistake c...

How Louisiana''s Lake Peigneur Became 200 Feet

On the morning of November 21, 1980, a Texaco oil rig team on Louisiana''s Lake Peigneur noticed that their drill had seized up below the

How one quiet fishing lake became a ''swirling vortex

The chimney of a submerged house is the only clue to a disaster four decades ago (Picture: Alamy) The morning of November 21, 1980, started

Lake Peigneur: The Incredible Whirlpool Disaster of 1980

Explore the astonishing story of Lake Peigneur''s 1980 disaster in our video, where a Texaco drilling error led to a cataclysmic whirlpool.

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Workers on an oil drilling rig in Lake Peigneur, Louisiana, felt the earth tremble beneath their feet. A bizarre disaster was unfolding—a disaster that seemed impossible in its

40th anniversary of salt mine breach creating

Meanwhile, the massive oil rig began to shake violently and was swallowed up in the 10-foot-deep lake, and barges began to spiral in a

Drilling rig breaks into salt mine cavity, draining lake

JEFFERSON ISLAND, La. -- Officials today said an oil drilling operation may not have been responsible for the hole in a south Louisiana lake bottom that emptied the lake into

TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of

TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole --

Lake Peigneur Disaster

At that time, Diamond Crystal Salt Company operated the Jefferson Island salt mine under the lake, while a Texaco oil rig was drilling down from the surface of the lake searching for

The Lake Peigneur Sinkhole Disaster of 1980: When The

November 20, 1980, was a calm day at Louisiana ''s Lake Peigneur, located about nine miles north of Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, until a Texaco oil drill bit struck a large salt dome beneath the water, causing a cataclysmic disaster. Within three hours, a giant

Lake Peigneur Disaster: Here''s how the lake once

Lake Peigneur Disaster: On the morning of November 21, 1980, a Texaco oil rig team on Louisiana''s Lake Peigneur noticed that their drill had

TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a

TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole -- swallowing 11 barges -- and a nearby

Tiny Mistake Made an Entire Lake Vanish in 3 Hours

A strong rumble comes next. The colossal $5-million drilling rig with a height of a 15-story building is slowly sinking into the water. But the lake''s depth is no

In 1980, Lake Peigneur Disappeared, Swallowing

From a modest lake to the deepest in Louisiana, it''s quite the story. The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster saw an oversight result in a dramatic

How a Drilling Mistake Drained an Entire Lake

November 20, 1980—a calm lake in Louisiana suddenly vanishes into the earth, creating a massive whirlpool that swallowed everything in its path. What caused this bizarre disaster?

20 November 1980: The Lake Peigneur disaster

How do you turn a ten-foot deep freshwater lake into a saltwater one over a thousand feet deep? The residents of Lake Peigneur in Louisiana found out on 20 November

The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster

On the morning of November 20, 1980, the crew of the oil rig was probing the lake bed when they ran into a small problem—their 14-inch drill bit

In 1980, Lake Peigneur Disappeared, Swallowing

The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster saw an oversight result in a dramatic reshaping of the Louisiana landscape. The resulting sinkhole

Lake Peigneur Historical Marker

Within hours an enormous whirlpool formed on the surface as gravity pulled Lake Peigneur into the cavern below, dragging a drilling rig, several barges, boats, a newly

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This past weekend was the anniversary of the Lake Peigneur drilling

LAKE PEIGNEUR - NEW IBERIA, LOUISIANA On the morning of November 20, 1980, drillers on an oil rig became alarmed when their drill suddenly seized up below the lake''s surface and

How to Drain an Entire Lake

This video from the History Channel shows how Lake Peigneur in Louisiana disappeared in 1980 when the location of a salt mine was miscalculated during exploratory oil

How a Drilling Mistake Drained an Entire Lake

November 20, 1980—a calm lake in Louisiana suddenly vanishes into the earth, creating a massive whirlpool that swallowed everything in its path. What caused this bizarre

This Sinkhole Sucked Down 11 Barges Like They

This Sinkhole Sucked Down 11 Barges Like They Were Rubber Duckies A 1980 drilling accident caused one of the worst industrial accidents

Lake Peigneur Sinkhole | The Center for Land Use Interpretation

The Jefferson Island Salt Dome is the location of Lake Peigneur, which grew substantially during a 1980 incident where an underground salt mine, active at the time, was accidentally drilled into

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