How Drilling a 14 in. Hole Created a 1.3K ft Deep Saltwater Lake Out of a 10 ft Deep Freshwater One

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Lake Peigneur is located in Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico. Before 1980, it was an approximately 10-foot deep fresh water lake with an island in the middle. Next to it, and partially under it, Diamond Crystal Salt Company maintained a salt mine, with salt being mined near the lake since 1919.
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@chrisbaker8533 4 года назад

When the average person says "whoops", a glass breaks. When a mythbuster says "whoops", a cannonball comes through your front door. When an engineer says whoops, a new lake is formed.

@charlesphillips1468 4 года назад

Ha! You remind me... when I was in 8th grade, our athletics field was next to the school, but higher up then the back of the first floor of school building. Or, put another way, the back part of the first floor of the school was below the level of the athletics field, at just above mid-window height with only a waist-high chain link fence between them. One day in phys-ed class, we were doing track and field and a student (not me) threw a shot put that went through a window of a first floor classroom and bounced off a desk during a math class. Whoops.

@rudolfdirks9253 4 года назад

@J Mireles the school burns, that happened to my chemistry teacher xD

@GreatestLoserEver 4 года назад

@J Mireles The Powerpuff Girls are born?

@LockheedRep 4 года назад

What happens when a nuclear physicist says “whoops”?

@underweenie 4 года назад

The nuclear test succeeds

@MrAntiKnowledge 3 года назад

"Amazingly there were no deaths" *calm* "3 Dogs died in the event" *John Wick intensifies*

@LittleMissLeared 4 года назад

"We are so fired." - The workers, allegedly.

@Battusai1984 4 года назад

Unless they had a hand in picking the spot they most likely were ok, i'm an operator in a factory that cuts glass, if the guys in the office tell me "cut this" and it ends up being wrong the guys in the office get the flak, not me.

@Beadledom2024 4 года назад

Allegedly

@TIMEtoRIDE900 3 года назад

@@Battusai1984 The guy on the platform mis-reading the guy in the office's specs, or mis-reading his position from shore markers (pre GPS?)

@allewis4008 3 года назад

Workers don't get into trouble when they followed the exact instructions and the land itself is the cause, it's filed under "Act of God".

@WexMajor82 3 года назад

@@Battusai1984 And if the order hasn't been written anywhere, you'll still be the one fired. "I didn't tell him to cut that!".

@AlexanderSLeBlanc 4 года назад

I go kayaking on this lake. It’s about 15 minutes from my house. Going from being in a spot where your paddle can touch the bottom to knowing that you are above an absolute chasm is exhilarating. As a fun aside, certain brackish/saltwater fish species now live in the lake which make it a unique place to go fishing.

@llamasugar5478 4 года назад

Alexander LeBlanc it’s like standing at the edge of Flowerpot Island and trying to grasp the idea that you’re standing on a 300-foot cliff. Thrilling and a little creepy.

@legacyoflore1597 4 года назад

Well "whoopsie doodle" is my new favourite phrase

@steelerspittsburgh875 4 года назад

Texaco paid out 52 million Former boss on the oil rig " oopsie doodle " 🤣🤣

@KushBerryJake 4 года назад

"I just picked a whole bouquet of oopsie-daisies"

@THEfamouspolka 4 года назад

Somebody watches AVE

@laurawillits176 4 года назад

I've always wanted to hear Simon say "whoopsie-doodle."

@rcknbob1 4 года назад

@thisguy I think it was David Letterman, actually. Of course, I could be wrong and it was two other guys.

@michaelnadler596 4 года назад

Sounds like the mine-foreman was a real hero.

@molybdaen11 4 года назад

“ Nobody dies on my watch, now let everything where it is and move your hairy ass to the elevator, understood?”

@DarkcIoud1111 4 года назад

If this happened nowadays, the foreman would be like "I thought you guys were thirsty. Keep working and call me if something important happens. Also I gave myself a raise by cutting your health benefits."

@RequiemPoete 4 года назад

@@DarkcIoud1111 nah. Probably the Foreman's boss though.. U out know people who don't do work.

@georgeheld1901 4 года назад

jeremy ray for real, China’s coal mines are apparently one of the worst places to work on earth. They are cramped with not enough air, mines collapse or explode on a regular basis, and they release toxic, radioactive gases into nearby towns when processing it

@a.westenholz4032 4 года назад

@@georgeheld1901 You can certainly find countries with a worse record than the US, but at the same time you can also find countries with a much better record. Yes China has awful environmental policies in general (except a few that they do more for the sake of propaganda), but it isn't really helpful for the US to compare itself with China, unless the goal is just to make yourself feel better. Kind of like if you were discussing corruption to compare the US to Columbia or Mexico. In comparison to those the US will certainly be less corrupt, but that is far cry from meaning that corruption isn't a problem in the US, just not one of the worst cases to be found.

@matchrocket1702 4 года назад

I saw a video of that disaster. There's a guy in a small boat with a small outboard motor on it trying like hell to get away from the whirl pool. He just barely makes it to shore.

@deathbycheese850 4 года назад

I saw the that too.

@castonyoung7514 4 года назад

WHERE'S THE VIDEO?!

@matchrocket1702 4 года назад

@@castonyoung7514 I saw it on TV. I can't remember the show. You could try a search on YT.

@jaquigreenlees 4 года назад

@@castonyoung7514 search for Lake Peigneur disaster, there are a few videos of it. Matchrocket I think it was disasters of the century from History Channel.

@sunnyjim1355 4 года назад

We've all seen it, yet it wasn't shown here... which just shows what a cheap arse channel this is.

@o.k.productions5202 3 года назад

When a sizeable fresh water lake suddenly becomes a even bigger saltwater lake, you know somebody messed up.

@Aetius_of_Astora 4 года назад

Just imagine minding your own business herding your cow and then the lake decides to belch and kill everything

@CafeenMan 4 года назад

Man... If I had a dime for every time that's happened to me...

@MetallicBascinet 4 года назад

I've died from one of those things before. It really sucks

@thefloridamanofytcomments5264 4 года назад

Have some respect, that lake was my uncle (RIP Ricky ☝️)

@paulgoogol2652 4 года назад

@@CafeenMan You would be still a very bad business man because cows cost money.

@greenkoopa 4 года назад

Do you know de way?

@TheGuardDuck 4 года назад

It's like when you're digging near a water body in Terraria, and suddenly everything around you floods... And there goes your favorite fishing spot...

@erikd4690 4 года назад

Haha, yeah, my reference point for the first story is minecraft.

@scottmantooth8785 4 года назад

*doh!*

@HardestManInTarot 4 года назад

TheGuardDuck always on a Monday

@TheGuardDuck 4 года назад

@@erikd4690 I thought Minecraft fluids don't "really" flow, as in, you can't drain a lake, can you? You TOTALLY can in Terraria.

@erikd4690 4 года назад

@@TheGuardDuck true, but fluids do propagate over surfaces in minecraft, so while the lake won't drain, it's very possible that removing one wrong block from the bottom of the lake will flood most or all of your mine network, depending on how you dug it.

@princessbuttercup8954 4 года назад

My uncle worked at that mine as part of the rescue team. He wasn't there that day because my aunt went into labor that morning so he was at the hospital with her. Him and my grandfather also helped with the Big Bayou Canot amtrack wreck. They were both on search and rescue.

@murraymclean5177 3 года назад

Mine rescue. No firemen, no ambulance, no police. Only miners enter mines. We save our friends or they die.

@ryanleblanc6817 Год назад

I’ve read about that Amtrak train wreck. So horrific. Passengers were banging on doors as their cars sank and would-be rescuers couldn’t do anything for them.

@tomsmith3045 3 года назад

Great story! I'd never heard of this. Awesome job of the salt mine crew getting everyone out. I've been in a mine once, also back in the 80's - coal mine - and it was terrifying. Not easy to get out of quickly to say the least, and many, many things to go wrong.

@murraymclean5177 3 года назад

Kinda like a plane or sub. Everything has to work right. Far more people get gassed from fire then drown in mines.

@PaulRudd1941 4 года назад

See kids? Math is important.

@ghostnoodle9721 4 года назад

Calculus however...

@scottmantooth8785 4 года назад

*no fixing that with photoshop or duct tape either*

@scottmantooth8785 4 года назад

@@ghostnoodle9721 *Bistromathics even more during those excursions into the 5th Dimension and back again without the tedious and bothersome need for going through customs and those costly parallel realignment fees*

@miscl_anon 4 года назад

@GazB hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy apparently

@garyshaffer6591 4 года назад

You spelled meth wrong.

@luisdeleyendas 4 года назад

"it's my first day"

@IndustrialBonecraft 4 года назад

Imagine that at your next interview. "So, why did you leave your previous employer?" "... Well."

@DavidWsTrainVideos 4 года назад

Damn it Homer

@molybdaen11 4 года назад

@thisguy Why should he fire him? He just invested 55 million dollars to train him.

@leonarddaneman810 4 года назад

@@DavidWsTrainVideos "I didn't do it." Homer's son, Bart.

@survivalsavage9454 3 года назад

Data

@fiveninecummins7768 3 года назад

I bet their boss was real "salty" after this.. I'll see myself out..

@Avenus112 3 года назад

No no, please keep going. Shake the puns on out.

@prunabluepepper 4 года назад

Yep, I'm pretty sure 'whoopsidoodle' is exactly the word they used. 😂

@erikd4690 4 года назад

Thank you, TIFO! Next time my soda can fizzes over, I'm going to correct anyone who says it exploded: "That wasn't an explosion, that was a limnic eruption."

@DeRien8 4 года назад

Congratulations on your literal lake of soda

@DaddyBeanDaddyBean 3 года назад

The limnic explosion near the end - limnic refers to water stratifying into layers by temperature. In warm environments, the water at the top of the lake is warmed by the sun and warm air, and since heat rises, the warmest water stays at the top and continues to get warmer. The cooler water below stays there. In cold environments, such as the US Great Lakes in winter, the water at the surface is cooled by the colder air above, and then that water sinks and is replaced by the slightly warmer water below it, which cools and sinks, and eventually the entire depth of the lake stabilizes at the same temperature. When the water is all the same temperature and has no layers, it is called a "monimolimnion"... which is the longest non-hyphenated English word typed entirely with the right hand. :-)

@SuzanneU Год назад

Thank you - fascinating information and an impressive new word.

@sportfuryman 3 года назад

This disaster was caught on tape. The video is old but completely amazing.

@DesertFernweh 4 года назад

The day Mother Nature yelled, "Wrong Hole, Wrong Hole!!!" Hehehehe,I am going to hell.

@bawwsbearrd 4 года назад

But shit still got drastically wet😈🤓

@johnbennett7376 4 года назад

Yup, I am too because it made me laugh.

@DietMilkLifts 3 года назад

@@bawwsbearrd LMAO THIS IS GOLD

@I.am.Sarah. 3 года назад

look me up when you get there ;)

@cameronknowles6267 3 года назад

@@bawwsbearrd it squirted

@zevbleuler6998 4 года назад

FYI Re: Lake Nyos In addition to a source of CO2 (volcanic substrate) the climate around Nyos is quite stable, preventing what would otherwise provide weather mediated mixing of thermal strata in the lake. Hence the water at the bottom stays where it is and stays quite cold thereby increasing its capacity to retain dissolved CO2 (until it can’t that is.) there have been other similar events. Lake Monoun was one.

@jango20124 4 года назад

Holy shit, imagine being a fish in that lake when it happened

@EuanWhitehead 3 года назад

Bye bye baby, baby bye bye

@the_hanged_clown 4 года назад

4:05 NOW I understand why 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything

@pirobot668beta 4 года назад

6x9=42...in base 13! The ultimate secret is that everyone is using the wrong number base!

@supervivens3402 4 года назад

You were 2 seconds off

@rcslyman8929 4 года назад

42 on the ASCII map is *, otherwise known as the "catch-all wildcard".

@rayceeya8659 4 года назад

Speaking of lakes, you think Simon would ever do the ecological disaster that is the Salton Sea?

@davidprodigy5833 4 года назад

Definitely a big "uh oh"

@mikelash9251 4 года назад

I was surprised that “The Great Chicago Flood” wasn’t a bonus fact. Idiots with drills costing millions in absurd water damage theme.

@screamingfalcon71 4 года назад

But it wasn't a drill, but a pile driver.

@Jobe00 4 года назад

This is my favorite of the History Channel's Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters IV episode. No loss of life, but the cascading series of failures was spectacular.

@LetustheDragon 4 года назад

I remember this episode of Mega Disasters. I still think it's insane how all the miners got out in time. Good work on foreman.

@thepeff 4 года назад

I've never seen the units "kilofoot" but I am totally on board!

@jessehudgins6066 4 года назад

Lmao I was so confused

@rosiefay7283 4 года назад

@Kuuryo That's already mindfucking: using "standard" in an attempt to specify some non-metric units.

@CrankyHermit 4 года назад

Worlds colliding.

@MC_AU 4 года назад

thepeff METRIC ENVY !

@thepeff 4 года назад

@@MC_AU Maybe so. The US will get there. It's a very slow transition

@philipjohnson3225 3 года назад

Just imagine watching a quarter-mile wide whirlpool form just where you were a little while ago... must have been like watching a gateway to hell open in front of you

@johndododoe1411 Год назад

*under you

@mohoganston 4 года назад

I came to hear about a lake, ended up learning about the history of cask and barrel sizes

@Matthew-el2fw 4 года назад

My heart goes out to the 3 dogs

@smexyapman 3 года назад

"whoopsiedoodle!" Some fired person

@charlescomly1 4 года назад

Someone heard the phrase, YOUR FIRED!

@JeskaDax 3 года назад

LOL I had to watch this video again because I love hearing Simon call Business Blaze "a *BIT* more laid back"! :D

@SunnyGirlFlorida 4 года назад

If only they had had phone cameras at that time! What a sight to see.

@matthewarnold4557 4 года назад

The history channel did a hour long documentary on the disaster.

@joshuad6553 3 года назад

Imagine the drone footage.

@treborironwolfe978 4 года назад

You *DO* realize the only reason I'm here.. I can deal with -8 minutes of strange and unknown content. You can mostly thank Simon for that. Never underestimate the pull of a strong whirlpool.

@shannonrhoads7099 4 года назад

That certainly does put a... (puts on sunglasses)... spin on things.

@RedOnly 4 года назад

"That's nothing Texaco.....hold my beer" -BP

@robertmckeown5315 4 года назад

The lake Peigneur would make for a heck of a scary diving adventure.

@bf945 4 года назад

Fun fact. I did a summer intern job where we studied the lake before it disappeared. We wrote a report on the aquatic life, geology, and sedimentation. The "Delcambre canal" is pronounced "Del-come canal", not "Del-Cam-bre" canal.

@matthewsermons7247 4 года назад

A resident of Louisiana, I knew right away from the title of this video the subject matter. To be honest, I figured it halfway into reading the title.

@fashnvain3194 4 года назад

Matthew Sermons me too.....we all know this one, don’t we...lol

@daemian2k 4 года назад

As someone who works in the oilfield I knew what this story was going to be about

@EmperorNefarious1 4 года назад

I knew it once I saw 14in hole... They talked about this in university in one of my engineering classes. The lesson was why there is no partial credit in that class by demonstrating what a mistake could do.

@rjduhon 3 года назад

He also pronounced Delcambre wrong.

@rancidbeef582 4 года назад

I've seen videos and a documentary about that lake draining into the mine. It was incredible to watch. Also, there was a show on either History Channel or Science Channel or something called "Killer Lakes" that has a lot of info about the CO2 event.

@BA-gn3qb 4 года назад

From fresh water alligators to salt water crocodiles in a day. That's progress! 👍👍

@toddburgess6792 4 года назад

42 is the bonus answer to everything.

@jaspr1999 4 года назад

I remember the breaking news flash then. No one knew what was going on but everyone anywhere near the lake was freaking out. I lived in South Texas and it was all three stations were all about talking and hypothesizing about it.

@ThorkilKowalski 4 года назад

Did anyone mention the rapture?

@kirbymarchbarcena 4 года назад

Supervisor:Is this your first day in the job? Rookie: Yes, I'm ready to drill (showed his Black & Decker driller) Supervisor: we're oil drillers not carpenters Rookie: oopsie-doodle

@AtaMarKat 4 года назад

kirby march barcena “This isn’t Tex. Oak Co. lumber and carpentry?”

@davidroddini1512 4 года назад

Rookie: Hey a drill is a drill. What’s the worst that could happen?

@AwesometownUSA 4 года назад

The engineering-disasters podcast “Well There’s Your Problem” does a really good episode about this

@timmycrw91 4 года назад

Thankfully no one was killed. and .so. this is actually hilarious in a way.

@dark1810 4 года назад

300 pound is about what a man can manage ? the hell kinda super men did they have back in the 1800s

@fukumarkzuckerburg 4 года назад

Men that were fit, and weren't dehydrated six pack bodybuilders. Hell, I can manage 300 pounds easily, and my body ain't in the best condition

@KaiHenningsen 4 года назад

Don't confuse "managing" with "lifting".

@Mondo762 4 года назад

Actually it's tipping the barrel up on it's edge and rolling it to where you want it. Takes both brains and brawn. Try doing it on a rolling ship and it can get a bit hairy,

@shanecarubbi7864 4 года назад

Tip the Barrel at the correct angle and rolling it around from place to place isn't that hard and then to get them pack in tight, shimmy and scoot like you would do a washing machine. One of my job duties was to restocks a shed we kept our oil berrals in and I'm 155 lbs soaking wet.

@buttymcbuttsworth 4 года назад

Yeah, rolling it is the key. There's a reason barrels became popular

@regularpit1508 4 года назад

1:40 I remembered this story I watched on something on my grandfather's TV either Weather channel or Science channel

@tissuepaper9962 3 года назад

I come back to this video every so often, and it's always just as good as it was the first time.

@lawrencecarpenter638 3 года назад

U should see the video of all that water flowing into the salt mine.AWESOME

@Colonel_Overkill 4 года назад

The most appropriate time in recent history for the words "oh shit!" to be uttered...

@PangaeaJAL 4 года назад

I really hate it when that happens ...

@44hawk28 4 года назад

I had always assumed that they were 55 gallon drums because that's the size drums I had always work with. At 42 gal that would make the oil approximately 246 lb her Barrel

@darrylgibson3575 4 года назад

That's what I always thought too.

@SilasHumphreys 4 года назад

A gallon is not always the same. It starts with fluid ounces; a US customary fluid ounce is about 4% larger than an Imperial fluid ounce. Then, an Imperial pint is 20 ounces whereas a US customary pint is 16 ounces, which is where most of the difference comes from. A gallon is eight pints, but the different sizes of pints make a big difference; a US customary gallon is 3.79 liters, while an Imperial gallon is 4.55 liters, or 1.2 US gallons. The standard oil barrel as a unit of measurement is 42 US gallons, approximately 35 Imperial gallons or 159 liters. The steel drums used for small amounts of oil nowadays are 44 Imperial gallons, 55 US gallons, 200 liters, and are fairly similar in overall size to 42 gallon wooden barrels. They're lighter and less bulky as containers, so for a similar overall weight and volume, you can have more oil and less barrel. However, mostly oil is moved as a bulk product, so the important thing is just how much there is in total, and oil companies have been keeping their records in barrels for so long that it's not worth changing over to a more sensible unit.

@44hawk28 4 года назад

@@SilasHumphreys everything you say is true, except for one measurement that has stayed the same for hundreds of years. A pint. It is always 16 oz by u.s. measurement. As it has always been. It is actually one of the oldest measurements of volume that exist. And the United States maintained most of those old measurements when the rest of the world decided to change everything, which still doesn't make any sense because volumetric measurement is still the same formula whether it's metric or standard. Length or distance is still measured with the same mathematical formulas, and inch measurements are easy enough to put into digital form. Which was a sold all of the problems in the first place. Apparently nobody took fifth grade math when they decided they wanted a digital form of measuring things. But what the hell do the French know anyway when they're the ones who drove this change after the French Revolution? And the reason Imperial measurements are larger that standard measurements, is because the monarchy then has the ability to arbitrarily raise taxes by just changing the measurement standards.

@permanentvisitor2460 3 года назад

They did basically the same thing when the salt dome under Bayou Corne failed. Now it's a still growing sinkhole that's eating a town.

@kylevernon7529 4 года назад

Near Imperial, Texas they did it in reverse. They punctured a saline aquifer and now there is a saline lake slowly growing in size and killing everything it inundates. The well was drilled in the 1970's and the lake appeared 30+ years later.

@bartfoster1311 4 года назад

Just started this but i am gonna guess... thanks Texaco!

@randallpetroelje3913 4 года назад

Talk about a “oh shit we are all going to die” moment to. “Oh shit major lawsuits”. You never cease to amaze. Thanks again for your show and commentary.

@darrylcarnell9095 4 года назад

A masterful use of language arts, for that I say thankyou Simon Whistler! The content provided is so much more satisfying when spoken correctly, truly inspiring.

@IanRubin2 4 года назад

Been to this lake more than a few times, actually! The thing I love about this is that when the accident happened, a newly built house on the botanical gardens near the lake got sucked down and the only thing left standing of it to this day is the brick chimney, sitting a couple of feet in the lake by itself.

@jenniferryersejones9876 4 года назад

Neat!

@pegasusted2504 4 года назад

@@jenniferryersejones9876 Unless you're rowing in a boat and don't see it sticking out of the water ;~)

@jenniferryersejones9876 4 года назад

@@pegasusted2504 Ha! Anybody ever dived down the chimney, had a look in the house?

@bguilbeau 4 года назад

@@jenniferryersejones9876 The house is completely gone. It's only the bottom few feet of the chimney in the water, it's fairly close to the shore. I live about 5 miles from there. Simon's pronunciation of Delcambre (it's pronounced Dell-Come) hurt my soul. LOL

@jenniferryersejones9876 4 года назад

@@bguilbeau Bummer. The thought of the house being intact underwater struck my macabre soul! I had an idea that, like 'macabre', Delcambre was only two syllables, but only because we have so many French names/words in Canada.

@davidehrlich5140 4 года назад

I was in Cameroon when the Lake Nyos event occurred. We always pronounced in Nee-os, with the os as in 'toast'

@josescalcagno 4 года назад

Sometimes I forget your videos let my brain have a change of gears when I'm bogged down mentally with rl sh.. stuff. Thanks for the video and your content.

@zeusathena26 3 года назад

My father loved spending weekends at that lake to go fishing. He was upset , but greatful he wasn't there right then. Luckily Louisiana has many places to fish!

@Terri_MacKay 4 года назад

This is why water terrifies me...it is an absolutely unstoppable force, it's going to go wherever it wants. I'm glad that no workers were killed in this strange accident. But RIP to the 3 little dogs. Note to everyone here...if you aren't already subscribed to Business Blaze, you should be. Don't be put off by the "business" part...it is by far Simon's best and funniest channel!!

@adeleirvine9053 4 года назад

Simon: No one died Me: meh Simon: three dogs died Me:😢😢😢 absolute tragedy, their sacrifice will never be forgotten

@LunaBari 4 года назад

He should have said no humans died.

@TerryLawrence001 4 года назад

PETA!

@adeleirvine9053 4 года назад

@Skunk Ape are you by any chance the type of person who will take everything to seriously?

@adeleirvine9053 4 года назад

@Skunk Ape you didn't need to comments you know, it's clear you are not a pet person and there is nothing I can do to change your mind about it but you wont change my mind either, you could have rolled your eyes and moved on but you chose to be an angry little turnip instead so here we are.

@adeleirvine9053 4 года назад

@Skunk Ape anyone looking after 4 children should be mature enough to not leave angry comments on a stupid post about 3 dead dogs, grow up please you'll only benefit from it

@bobroberts2371 4 года назад

Sounds like the James Bond movie The Living Day Lights. For another lake by mistake, see Salton Sea .

@TomLuTon 4 года назад

If you're talking about the fisherman on the drained lakebed scene, that was 'A view to a Kill' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lj-FvdszohE.html

@Kieran_Martin 4 года назад

Great video Simon and the crew. Thanks for the video guys.

@suzannesimpson1672 4 года назад

I remember when this happened. When I was a kid in the 60s & 70s, they used to have tours of Diamond Salt’s mine. They had stopped the tours well before the lake collapse.

@hypnotix370z4 4 года назад

Yep I knew by the title what this was. I’m from Louisiana and recently learned about the lake.

@hellbillyjr 4 года назад

That's insane. I could just imagine fishing in the river nearby and seeing the current reverse. Thatd be some freaky shit

@vernicethompson4825 4 года назад

There is a video on RU-vid you should check out that features a guy fishing in the lake when the whirlpool started. He just barely made it out. A History Channel video, I think.

@keithgibson568 4 года назад

I used to fish on the exeter ship canal in the 70s and you always knew when when to move higher up the bankside when the slow flow reversed suddenly and rapidly, you knew the sludge boat was coming down the canal. Seemed like the ship was not moving much but was just kind of pumping the water past it as the water level in front of it dropped about a foot or so !!

@NajwaLaylah 4 года назад

Thank you, Foreman LaSalle.

@stelliform 4 года назад

My mechanic was a miner in the salt mine. The state of Louisiana paid for vocational training for all of the miners, and he chose automotive mechanics. He now owns his own shop.

@Mad-rg9sz 3 года назад

The oil workers who watched the whirlpool definitely would of thought they just summoned demons or something 😂 i mean imagine your workplace being dragged underground infront of your eyes

@fatelvishguy6386 4 года назад

"I'm never going to financially recover from this."

@bazookajo6864 4 года назад

AYYY I live 20 minutes away from where this happened. I did a report on it as well. Great video.

@BillyNoMates1974 3 года назад

If Carlsberg made 14 inch drill bits, they'd probably be the best drill bits in the world

@AshGreen359 4 года назад

So they were drilling for oil, in the middle of a lake, over a salt mine? Someone must have gotten fired for that 😂

@md_vandenberg 4 года назад

Do you think the drilling and salt companies weren't aware of these activities? All concerned parties knew what was happening.

@leechowning2712 4 года назад

They were basing the mine location on... Well... Estimates and best guesses. Someone dropped a decimal I expect.

@jamesbizs 4 года назад

Lee Chowning lol I can see how 1.4 miles away would be way different than .14 miles away. Woopsy

@probablynotabigtoe9407 4 года назад

Human greed knows no bounds

@vernicethompson4825 4 года назад

Pity the poor salt miners. They all lost their jobs permanently through no fault of their own.

@doobiouscannibis 4 года назад

I've lived near Titusville most my life. More of a meth town in recent memory.

@garyshaffer6591 4 года назад

Took longer than I expected t.b.h.

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic 4 года назад

I lived in Titusville for a few years. F*cking impoverished now. My understanding is, the upper half the population pays double in property taxes, as the lower half can't afford it. Gov'ment!

@richardlamm4826 4 года назад

@GazB Titusville was where the first oil rig was, Louisiana is where they pulled the plug on the lake.

@jasonwalker9571 4 года назад

Hi Simon. Fun video. I was born and raised in Iberia Parish, where this took place. I was 8 years old when this happened, but I remember it well. Also, Delcambre Canal, named after the nearby town of Delcambre, is pronouced like Dell-cam. The bre is silent.

@naomiquinlivan905 4 года назад

Was glad to hear the mine workers got out safely.

@chuckmoore8668 3 года назад

I'm sorry this is funny as shit! Can you imagine the look on the foreman's face when he realized how bad he screwed up! The oil drill foreman that is!

@monstermayhem4367 4 года назад

"there were no casualties" A minute later- "3 dogs died" Liar. Those doggos will be remembered and missed

@MAGGOT_VOMIT 4 года назад

_3 Dog Night_ *_"JEREMIAH WUZ A BULL-FRAWWWG.........WUZ A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE!!!"_*

@LisaBowers 4 года назад

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT I never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine. And, _let me tell you,_ he always had some mighty fine wine!

@Perririri 4 года назад

That's three more than killed by *CoViD-19*

@PangaeaJAL 4 года назад

... ARE remembered and missed ...

@dj63386 4 года назад

My brother was the engineer for Texaco in charge of this rig. It's amazing how many people are finding out about this now.

@davidodonovan1699 4 года назад

Great work. Brilliant video. Well done. Best regards from the Republic of Ireland. God bless.

@mylabot 4 года назад

i gasped. Do another video on the legal fallout

@louiealbrecht1088 4 года назад

Sure. We all know Exon found some way to simply pass the cost on to consumers but it would be interesting to examine the machinations involved.

@Legendendear 4 года назад

Now i know that the draining lake in James Bond was inspired...

@CaptainChris69 4 года назад

I was working for Parker Drilling Company at the time this happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. I knew a few people who were on the rig. The fishing is excellent there today!

@BillyNoMates1974 3 года назад

Black and Decker hammer action drill is the most powerful drill ever. apparently they can drain lakes !

@suzettehenderson9278 4 года назад

Actually, the Drake well is 1 mile south of Titusville in Venango County on Oil Creek.

@luviskol 4 года назад

They never found the lorry load of Mento's either

@Perririri 4 года назад

#PennDOT *would like to know your location*

@beakyturf6336 4 года назад

Taking old youtube videos to make new, bad day at the office videos. I see what you're doing there. Touché.

@tybrady64 4 года назад

What’s amazing is how much salt they took out of that mine! That was a lot of water to get sucked in.

@smoraptor 3 года назад

"Whoops, I accidently permanently changed the geography and ecosystem of this area!"

@twocvbloke 4 года назад

That was definitely an "oops moment" that not even Tena pads could deal with... :P

@excellenceinanimation960 3 года назад

And I thought that my day was bad! First my jacket I took off got pulled into a sprayer rig engine. I was spraying fertilizer on greens. I work at a golf course. Than the next day lighting hit inside the building myself and some others were standing in. You could feel the energy in the air after! Fried a bunch of stuff and blew the metal sides out of some of the sprinkler boxes!

@davemcdaniel4856 4 года назад

I could listen to Simon all day. It could be a phone book, but damn.

@kurtengel4652 4 года назад

I'm more curious to see how it actually looked happening imagined it would've looked like the world itself gonna sink

@otakuman706 4 года назад

I posted this before so just copying it- "'I told you not to let me run this thing! No, it'll be fine you said?!? WHAT COULD GO WRONG YOU SAID?!?' Anyway, video link to this disaster below- I was trying to find a video I saw of this a while back. While this isn't the video I wanted with just the 'action' it should be sufficiently interesting to anyone who found Simon's take interesting, though it is a bit less entertaining without Simon. Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3cXnxGIDhOA.html" Oh and after that post, I saw a YT source linked in the description, but I haven't actually checked it yet. May be the same or similar, or other footage, iirc there's a few sources. Probably better than mine though lol

@kurtengel4652 4 года назад

@@otakuman706 lol well for an event back in the late 60s, I guess these clips are as good as they get

@nonplayercharacter6478 4 года назад

This is Louisiana, a sinkhole in Bayou Corne. It might have started out looking something like this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a7cOSzEKvrQ.html

@kurtengel4652 4 года назад

@@bobbythecajun7869 right. i dunno why my mind was thinking of the 1960s while typing that

@vernicethompson4825 4 года назад

To see how it might have looked, there is a good video on RU-vid, probably from the History Channel, that recreates the event, even showing the guy fishing who had to scramble to get out when he realized what was happening.

@Kylora2112 4 года назад

"So you destroyed a lake..."

@prisonerofthehighway1059 4 года назад

In their defense, they replaced it immediately lol.

@MidnightPhoenix07 4 года назад

Well... _technically_ they expanded it

@joaopk6263 3 года назад

@@MidnightPhoenix07 May (freshwater) lake peigneur rest in peace as one with the ocean. And the salt mine.

@BlackburnBigdragon 4 года назад

For my entire life, there has been a lake off the side of this highway near my apartment, and in the middle of this lake, there was this.. metal thing that someone always has a flag stuck on it. I always wondered what this lake was. I did some research and it turned out that the "lake" was a former clay mine. It's near a large lake and wet-land that's on the opposite side of the highway. Apparently, there was an underwater hole or something deep in the lake that went underneath the highway or something, like a water filled cave or something. They breached it and the whole mining site flooded and turned into a giant lake. The tiny metal bit sticking out of the water that people always put a flag on is actually the very top of a crane. That gives you somewhat of an idea how deep that new lake is. Under that water is tons and tons of mining equipment and vehicles that got caught up in the flood. Now, when you go over that stretch of highway, it just looks like there's this big lake on both sides of the highway.