The Lake Peigneur Rig Disaster #shorts

In 1980 on the morning of 21st November a team of Texaco oil riggers were drilling on the lake when the drill seized up. When trying to free the device there were a series of loud popping noises and the platform began to tilt towards the water. Alarmed the seven-man crew quickly got off the platform and scrambled to the shore.

It took just one and a half hours for the 150-foot-high rig to disappear below the water. It was astonishing as the lake had an average depth of only three feet. Unknowingly the men had drilled into the main shaft of the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine. It’s tunnels ran beneath the rock under the lake.

Lake water gushed into the mine but luckily all 55 miners were able to escape as everything was sucked into the largest man-made whirlpool in history. A tugboat, a parking lot, a dock and a chunk of a nearby island all got sucked into the void.

Now the lake is filled with brackish water because of the salt mine and the once three-foot-deep freshwater lake is now the deepest lake in Louisiana with a depth of 200 feet.



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