This past weekend was the anniversary of the Lake Peigneur drilling disaster in 1980. The lake completely swallowed two drilling platforms, a loading dock, 70 acres of land + trees, 11 barges,
How One Engineer's Tiny Mistake Made An Entire Louisiana Lake Completely Disappear | IFLScience
Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident - YouTube
Salt usually seals, but sometimes leaks: Implications for mine and cavern stabilities in the short and long term - ScienceDirect
Lake Peigneur: A Volatile Mix of Oil and Salt | Today's History Lesson
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Chimney in Lake Peigneur
The disappearing lake trick — Agile
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40th anniversary of salt mine breach creating Louisiana deepest lake
The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster 1980 | Plainly Difficult Documentary - YouTube
Lake Peigneur Salt Mine Disaster - Newspapers.com™
Engineering Oops: The Maelstrom of Lake Peigneur
The story of The Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster 1980 | by Thomas Crane | Medium
Eclipsed' podcast turns spotlight on Lake Peigneur disaster of 1980 | Entertainment/Life | theadvocate.com
The Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster 1980 - YouTube
Diagram of the Lake Peigneur Disaster, check out the comments for a short podcast describing the details of how this small lake sucked multiple barges into the depths of a salt mine. :
The Lake Peigneur Sinkhole Disaster of 1980: When The Earth Swallowed a Lake » TwistedSifter
How Louisiana's Lake Peigneur Became 200 Feet Deep in an Instant | Condé Nast Traveler
On this day: Lake Peigneur Drained — Google Sightseeing
Lake Peigneur – New Iberia, Louisiana - Atlas Obscura
The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster | Amusing Planet
