An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.

The in-depth story of the Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident: When The Earth Swallowed a Lake. November 20, 1980, is a new day at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Some 9 miles north of the...

A video shot by John Boudreaux shows the destructive power of a giant sinkhole in Bayou Corne, La. ...more.

Lake Peigneur [2] is a brackish lake in the U.S. state of Louisiana, 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) north of Delcambre and 9.1 mi (14.6 km) west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of 200 feet (60 meters), it is the deepest lake in Louisiana.

2010年11月22日 · Eleven barges, a tugboat, enormous swaths of forest—everything in or around the water was sucked down. The whirlpool’s power was so great that it reversed the flow of an entire canal that...

2022年11月1日 · After three hours, the lake was a vast, deep crater, drained of most of its 3.5 billion gallons of water. A ruptured natural gas line in the center of the crater caught fire and sent a column of flames into the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration rerouted all flights over the area for fear of a natural gas explosion.

On November 20, 1980—44 years ago exactly— an oil drilling accident caused the formation of Lake Peigneur, a sinkhole that remains the largest of its kind in the United States. The incident...

2022年9月14日 · November 20, 1980, was a calm day at Louisiana‘s Lake Peigneur, located about nine miles north of Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, until a Texaco oil drill bit struck a large salt dome beneath the water, causing a cataclysmic disaster.

2024年8月28日 · The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster saw an oversight result in a dramatic reshaping of the Louisiana landscape. The resulting sinkhole swallowed up a drilling platform, several...

2022年4月4日 · Within the next three hours, the entire lake disappeared into the mine. So much water drained into the caverns that the flow of the Delcambre Canal that usually empties the lake into Vermilion Bay was reversed, causing salt water from the Gulf of Mexico to flow into what was now a dry lakebed.