In 1980, an oil drilling operation accidentally pierced the roof of a massive salt mine beneath Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur, ...
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 ...
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 ...
IBERIA PARISH — Forty-five years after the Jefferson Island Mine Disaster, one of the survivors shared what she remembers from the day Lake Peigneur unexpectedly roared into the Diamond Crystal salt ...
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 ...