The Lake Peigneur Disaster: The Sinkhole that Swallowed a Lake

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  @adamvolf2678 · 1 year ago

  <b>well-known mining company exists as primary industry of area for decades</b><br><br>Texaco: we will deny absolutely any knowledge of it existing

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• AL

  @alexandersundestrand4374 · 1 year ago

  Professional surveyor here. I laughed out loud when I heard the excuse that they got the coordinate system confused. And I totally believe it. So many times I&apos;ve gotten coordinates from clients in obscure, custom made or completely obsolete coordinate systems. And of course the client has no further information, no idea how coordinate system works, and no contact information to the surveyor that once produced the coordinates. It even happened when we did a job for the pentagon, and we were like &quot;wait, didn&apos;t you guys invent the modern coordinate systems?&quot;<br><br>In another case with a MAJOR installation our client pretty much said &quot;yeah we have no idea what system this is in. Could you find it and give us the coordinates in a standard system?&quot; This particular object was on the seafloor...

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• EN

  @enobnala90 · 1 year ago

  What I love about this story is how the workers in the mines were so well trained in safety. They all got out safely and calmly.

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• MA

  @makepoisonsnotfriends · 1 year ago

  Kudos to the engineer that saved the miners!

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• TH

  @thestevenjaywaymusic7775 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Very sad, but just shows how big companies do whatever they want, and, get away with it because they are rich. What a wonderful planet we live on.

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• GN

  @Gnome_with_no_name · 1 year ago

  I know someone very involved in offshore work. <br>It was NOT an accident. <br>Corner cutting and greed was to blame in the deep water horizon.

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• CO

  @ComUnSas · 1 year ago

  Lake Emma in Colorado. Full one day. Sunnyside Mine underneath was full with Lake Emma the next day

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  @t.k.1319 · 1 year ago

  He said “there weren’t any fatalities,” and then later says “the workers who lost their lives, got nothing.”

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• KE

  @kennethwalker8402 · 1 year ago

  I was working in offshore oilfield construction in South Louisiana at the time. One of the guys fishing on the lake told his story to the news. He was fishing, then the current started moving his boat. Then he realized that there was not supposed to be a current in the lake! So he started his motor and managed to get to land against the suction. You could see he was a bit freaked out by the whole thing.

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• JU

  @justDioit · 1 year ago

  Contradiction at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM&amp;t=543">9:03</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM&amp;t=580">9:40</a> saying workers lost lives then saying 3 dogs were the only casualties.

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  @EyesOfByes · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM&amp;t=177">2:57</a> Nice view of Swedish west coast archipelago.

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  @bartfoster1311 · 1 year ago

  Now i watch this as i sit and fish in my kayak. At least Texaco isn&apos;t drilling anywhere nearby!

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