RECOMMENDED YOUTUBE: The Jefferson Island disaster
This is a very amazing clip from the History Channel, which highlights the 1980 Jefferson Island disaster, which resulted from an engineering catastrophe at Lake Peigneur. The Lake is located in Louisiana.
The footage shows a catastrophic event supposedly caused by an oilrig, which pierced a salt mine from the Lake’s surface, caused a whirlpool to form, and resulted in a blowout from the salt mine mixing with water. The accident destroyed homes and property, caused Lake Peigneur to almost disappear, water from the Gulf of Mexico to flow north, a huge waterfall to form, and major ecological changes to a once shallow lake. According to Wikipedia, the “whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres (260,000 m2) of the surrounding terrain.” Amazingly, no one perished.
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