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 ...

While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans 1,125 acres. Lake Peigneur is the deepest lake in Louisiana, with a depth ...

The Lake Peigneur disaster began with a single miscalculated drill — and ended with an oil rig, eleven barges, a tugboat, trucks, tractors, and entire chunks of Jefferson Island vanishing into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans ...