Lake Peigneur (disappearing lake) History Channel footage

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History Channel footage of the Lake Peigneur, Louisiana lake that got sucked into a salt mine in 1980.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: June 22, 2006 at 8:06 am
Author: imladynocturne

Length: 00:05:47
Rating: 4.78
Views: 458870

Tags: Lake Peigneur Louisiana disappearing lake History Channel engineeering disasters

Video Comments:
glazinq (October 31, 2008 at 4:25 pm)
A disaster of even greater magnitude is happening right now in East Java, Indonesia. Again because of drilling. Dumb fucks drilled into a mountain (volcano) releasing a bazzilion tons of hot mud which has been swallowing the surrounding countryside for 3 years now and shows no sign of stopping.
Bradlee6950 (October 21, 2008 at 1:08 pm)
Thats why you dont fuck with mother nature.how come engineers are sposed to be intellegant but theve got no common sense.
Key00Kard (October 19, 2008 at 3:25 pm)
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TruthSurge (October 17, 2008 at 9:06 pm)
Pretty dumb. Who thinks you can carve out a big hole under the ground and expect it to stay a hole with a huge lake on top? Humans screwing up the planet with no forethought...
Frenzyk1lla (October 20, 2008 at 5:25 am)
It is dumb, but only because the people who were drilling ought to have checked if there were hazards beneath; clearly that didn't happen here. After all, the diameter of the drill bit was only 14", the odds of drilling into a mine are pretty astronomical.

This is an ecological disaster; these seem pretty common these days, like the Great Pacific Landfill for example.
TruthSurge (October 20, 2008 at 7:46 am)
I believe this was dumbness squared.

1) Drilling over a mine or cave-like structure W/O knowing it (should have used sonar or something to test first

2) Drilling in a lake OVER said cave-like structure

It's like all these radioactive storage bins underground. Sweet. when one breaks... don't cry over the two-headed kids being born. :)
TheMeatfilledTaco (October 16, 2008 at 9:12 pm)
F-New York - MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. 1
travelext (October 7, 2008 at 8:33 pm)
this is crazy!!
etiennealive (October 6, 2008 at 7:18 pm)
Even Apeldoorn bellen
3124A (September 24, 2008 at 1:08 am)
wat idiots y would u dig someone in water dumbasseslol;p