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This drilling error opened a hole - and an entire lake drained away
In 1980, an oil drilling crew working on Lake Peigneur in Louisiana accidentally drilled into an underground salt mine beneath the lake. The breach created a massive whirlpool that sucked in an $8 million drilling platform, barges, trees, and part of the shoreline. Water from a nearby canal — and eventually the Gulf of Mexico — began ...
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