The in-depth story of the Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident: When The Earth Swallowed a Lake.
November 20, 1980, is a new day at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Some 9 miles north of the Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, a charming, calm lake is a popular resort for fishermen and nature lovers..
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In Wharton county Texas, in the old community of New Gulf, they have sink holes from the old sulfur mining activity
The salt dome looks like a hairy mans legs in a skirt bent over. bye
So Texaco broke a Whole Lake
Great Job on this documentary!
This is just because US has fuck all for regulations. That's why you can burn your fucking water.
Pure evil. An entire ecosystem destroyed for monetary gain
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Amazing that this is not well known!
"Let's dig a gigantic salt mine underneath a freaking lake, and then drill down THROUGH THE LAKE. I see nothing wrong with this plan. Drrr." How stupid can you get??? Seriously. Can you get any dumber than this?
No one died!! That is a mystery. I feel like as the workers were skilled, compassionate and of calm mind that they all survived. Both from mining and drilling. It was a disaster!!!
This is what happens when you hiring engineers from Ohio to drilling oil.
This was well presented
Dude that was epic.
They never thought to check for what they were digging into? Don’t understand people sometimes 🤷♂️
I can't believe that all miners are survived. We know what capitalists do when there is life lost. Give money to deceased worker and hide the death count.
2:59 the letters “bre” in the word Delcambre are silent. It’s pronounce
Del•Cam not Del•cam•bre.
I’ve lived along the coast all my life and that’s how folks down here pronounce the word.
Insane story
something involving texaco? what could go wrong?
Thats man for you: if we fuq uP, we'll just throw a zillion dollars after it!
Amazing no one died.
That electrician had that amazing intuition to alert all 55 miners, and that one miner as well, who went to get the other miners who weren't able to catch the signal.
Its evidently significant how good training weilds benefits.
They could probably go drill for that oil now,
Ya screwed up oil companies now fix it.
Some times the experts are not so expert.
The engineers gave them the coordinates, well there's your problem.
9:13 I laughed so hard at this
imagine being like a tour guide in Louisiana and you mention "for about 40 hours our highest waterfall in Louisiana was the 150ft waterfall in Lake Peigneur" and you tell them the single most greatest story you can ever tell to a person… ever.
The Romans used the water burst for Minery. They blow rock mountains to extract gold. In Spain we have rests of weird erosional rock mountains wich are not natural, does mountains were Roman gold mines. They first build a canal and deviate water from a near water source, then the mountain was tunneled and explosive filled a huge amount of water into the tunnel system. The high pressure air trapped in the tunnels broke then big junks of rock.
I’m from Erath Louisiana about 10 miles from the lake and the delcambre canal which the lakes water comes from was dry 🤣
Great video
HEy…we uh, took care of your lake problem!
Calling this a "Natural Disaster" is DUMB to say the least. How can you narrate in detail how it was clearly man made then in the end declare it as a "natural" disaster.???… WTF.???… 😮
its also posible th management over exploited the area of their lease…..
Your anger is misplaced. What’s sad, is you could be using your loss for change where it matters. It was the boy who killed your son. If he hadn’t had a gun, he would have used something else. I hope one day you’re not in a position where you have to defend yourself.
Could you please make a video of the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing of 1995. I have an old VHS tape that my father filmed and I think my mom drove the car. I was born in 1992, I used to go to the daycare until I was pulled out 2 weeks before the bombing or so I was told. Can't ask parents, they both died years ago.
Going from 10 feet deep to 200 is bonkers!
This is a VERY oopsie daisy moment
Whoever narrates does a great job. Feels like I'm watching cable TV.
"Especially in Texas and Louisiana"
Puts the Louisiana pin in Mississippi 😂
Of that $32 million Diamond Crystal was paid, how much did they give to the men/women who lost their job when the mine was lost? My guess…bupkis!
I was surprised that all the miners survived. The importance of good training.
Its weird when a video talks about a disaster that took place where you from (also Delcambre is pronounced Delcum)
Love your videos, so detailed and interesting. It would be even better if you start doing aviation accidents!