Into the Shadows 
Discover the incredible story of Lake Peigneur, a drilling site turned disaster zone. In 1980, Texaco’s accidental drill hit an underground salt mine, creating a vortex that swallowed the entire lake!
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whoever gave drilling permission in a high risk area must be a complete idiot and include government officials. how can they be so dumb?
why was that even legal?
Included with the horrible graphics is a History Channel aerial image. My father flew that plane and I grew up a few miles away. Live Oak Gardens is/was a botanical garden that was deeply impacted. The whole thing was very sad.
AI artwork instead of giving a fiverr job to a real person. Cmon bruh
So were there workers who lost their lives or were the 3 dogs the only casualties? Poor editing
A lake on my college campus vanished down a sinkhole overnight. It's still gone.
Yea, buddy. Mindlessly read that script.
So besides the few dogs and maybe the people that may or may not have died (unclear), it was mostly a disaster for capitalism since the companies lost their drill spot, equipment, and no money was to be made.
Been waiting for you to do this one for years!
any one else wish there had been a picture of said chimney?
Wait, you said that nobody died yet in the outro you say that dead workers got nothing? Well, I guess that checks out, as nobody dead = nothing to give?
You can’t just tell me Deepwater Horizon happened 14 years ago
My father worked for an oil company at the time and knew some of the engineers at the salt dome when this happened, there was a lot of finger pointing afterwards
🇺🇸🎗🇺🇦🌹🇮🇱
There is much better footage of the hole actually sucking in stuff.
So is this the fourth or fifth time Simon has made a video on this?
0:37 What the hell is "EXACTLY something like that"?
damn never heard of this event until now!
I from near there. Why not show the chimney? It's super cool looking.
It's crazy how fast a lake can drain — when I was a kid in the 70's, a sinkhole opened up under Lake Garfield, a bit south of Winter Haven and Wahneta in Florida, and sucked all the water down into the aquifer. Sinkholes weren't uncommon in the area, and the lake wasn't super deep — but from Friday night to Saturday morning it went from a nice boating lake to a huge gray mud puddle. Everyone in the area swarmed there to scoop up all the fish (not to save them, of course, except for dinner :P). The county eventually filled the sinkhole and restored the lake, and now the whole area around the lake and all the cow pastures nearby have been developed into hundreds of very expensive homes…. that are all built on land that used to get sinkholes on a super regular basis.
Contradiction from 9:03 and 9:40.
8:51 magical whitening shirt!
cant get along with the audio. Where's the mids?
He said “there weren’t any fatalities,” and then later says “the workers who lost their lives, got nothing.”
3 dog's is a tragedy!
All Louisiana water is muddy brown and there are no hills, never mind mountains. What a bunch of misleading fill footage. Do your homework….
Actually Lake Peignur was a popular fishing site. Two fishermen were in a boat and got stuck in the middle of the newly created mud flats that had been a lake.
My great grandfather started out as a wildcatter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcatter ) when he was just 14 years old. He went on to work for Texaco for 40 years, until he retired. He even got a gold watch out of the deal. Hard work for hard men.
South Louisiana resindent here. Delcambre is pronounced as DELL-kum.
OH MY FUCKING GOD, wtf is going on WITH SOUND IN YOUR RECENT VIDS?!?!?!?!?
It is ALL MUSH.
Granted, I have hearing issues, but ALL OTHER CHANNELS ARE INTELLIGIBLE.
Your channels are NOT.
Holy Fuck, FIX YOUR SOUND.
good lord. Does no one on your team LISTEN to what you PUBLISH????
Junk video, just a bunch of unrelated video but none of the actual lake of it being gone' 👎
I came to see the big hole, not get an environmental speech.