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Watch how a giant whirlpool swallowed an oil rig then began pulling an entire lake underground
On November 20, 1980, a routine oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana triggered one of the strangest industrial disasters in American history. After a drill penetrated an underground ...
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Sinkhole that swallowed an entire lake
On November 20, 1980, Lake Peigneur in Louisiana began doing the impossible — it started draining away. An oil drilling rig accidentally punctured the roof of a massive underground salt mine beneath ...
On the morning of Nov. 20, 1980, a Texaco drilling crew working on Louisiana's Lake Peigneur hit something it wasn't supposed to. Within hours, the lake was draining into a salt mine, and by the time ...
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