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'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 "wait, didn't you guys invent the modern coordinate systems?" In another case with a MAJOR installation our client pretty much said "yeah we have no idea what system this is in. Could you find it and give us the coordinates in a standard system?" This particular object was on the seafloor...
I'm also a Land Surveyor. Got my PSM right out of the Navy, back in 2005. Here in Florida we have five datum ranges. If you're in 85Datum, while working in South Florida, your values will be off up to 3.5 feet, northing and easting. I've seen fellas stake entire parking lots out, only to discover their mistake when the driveway returns fall in the middle of an existing traffic lane. There's a new cancer center here in Orlando that looks like a Happy Meal box. The entire parking lot is off the same way, because the Surveyor I took over for did just that, and layed out the whole building in the wrong part of the property, which forced the parking lot the be twisted and smashed to fit. I spent two weeks sitting in my truck, completely redesigning the CADD file, to make sure we had the proposed number of parking spots, at the appropriate sizes, without encroaching on lot lines or interfering with DRAs. I swear, if I ever find the guy who screwed that pooch, I'm gonna feed him a field book.😂
Yeah, i'm a Geomatic. It happens to the best of us. Its pretty confusing, if the coordinates dont match with the cadastral map! (i hope your understand me, english isn't my native language)
OK, Mr. professional surveyor, (NO disrespect intended), I have one for you. After I became disabled, I moved my family to West Virginia so we could be closer to my wife's family. She helped my parents A LOT when they were alive so after they passed, I couldn't begrudge her wanting to help hers but I digress. This and my father in law gave us an acre of his "40 acres" to put a house on. My house was paid off when I went on disability and I inherited my parents house, both in Florida, so we did the Beverly Hillbilly thing. Sold them houses, loaded up a 27 foot Ryder and moved up here in 2001. My father in law and I walked down to where our land was to be and I brought a can of orange spray paint, 4) 1 inch rebar stakes and a 3 pound hammer. Understand, my father in law was Virginia backwoods born, 3rd grade educated, Marine, Korean war POW and set like concrete in his own way. I'm now 69 and had known him since I was 10. I know what I'm talking about. We stop at the edge of some woods. "Put a stake here." I pound one in and paint the top orange. We walk about 500 feet. "Put a stake here." I pound one in and paint the top orange......"Well, Whitey, where to now?" "That's all." HUH??? The property line, as written, (paraphrased), in the deed and registered with the county is, "From the road between the two front stakes approximately 500 feet. Back to the tree line behind the powerline easement. My lot, including 1/2 half being power easement, looks like a drunk tried to cut a perfect 1/4 of a pie. Kinda wonky. The legal property line in the back of the property is the tree line. The power company keeps the trees at the back of my patch of trees trimmed and also the front of where his property / trees now begin using a helicopter with 5 or 6 hanging saw blades like the one in the James Bond movie that tore apart the bait house, I forget the movie name. Hence the tree line stays basically the same. I put stakes in at the back corners anyway as I knew that he wasn't going to live forever and he previously sold an acre of property on the other side of me that was going to be improved upon soon also. He and I used to argue about different things, in a friendly way of course. I used to tell him to shut up or I'd get my chainsaw and move the property line back 10 or 12 yards. If I would have been smart, I could have had a major chunk of his property before he died. It's a long story as to how he lost control of his land. He would have been technically homeless had he not stipulated that he had lifetime residency rights. Of course we would have had him move in here but that wasn't necessary. Oh, I almost forgot. When I said "40 acres" of his land. His deed gave specifically shaped boulders and their locations at the back of his property as property line markers. He said that he walked it off and it was closer to 70 acres. The copy of the deed that he got from the last owners was dated in the late 1920's. He bought the property in 1992.
Maybe this already well known, about 20 years ago, Switzerland and Germany decided to build a new bridge over the Rhine river that marks the border. They started from both sides, meeting in the middle. However, since Switzerland uses a different reference point for zero elevation above sea level than Germany, a correction of 27 cm had to be applied on one side. Nothing extraordinary, but certainly very rare as such bridges aren’t build every year. At some point somebody changed a plus to a minus sign, and the correction was applied in the wrong direction, resulting in mismatch of 54 cm (21”). Construction was already well underway when workers noticed the mismatch visually.
My best friend from the Navy became a dive welder when we got out. He left the Horizon two weeks before it blew. He was working directly for BP's main contractor. He got payed to keep his mouth shut, but he leveled with me one night, when we were out scalloping. What he told me places all the blame on BP, and it most definitely was not an accident. I'd be willing to bet that what your friend told you was what mine told me, based on the implications in your comment. Let's just say that if the truth ever comes out, BP is done and some people are going to prison.
@@Pugjaminno, it wasn't an accident. I can't tell you what I know, without bringing a lot of heat onto someone who means a great deal to me, but trust me, it was not an accident. BP knew about a very specific problem, and gave a very specific. direct order, that led to what happened. Those at the top have blood on their hands. They know it. The dive crew that left shortly before the incident knows it. Even the survivors know it. But BP put a lot of dirty money in a lot of hands, and went to great lengths to make sure that nobody will talk for a long time. Believe what you will, but I got the skinny from a man who was on the rig, and who I have literally entrusted with my life on more than one occasion. That man and I bled together in Iraq. He gave me a live transfusion when I took a bullet, and almost died to save me. Anyone else might lie to me, but not that man.
@NotaNinja He says no lives were lost, then he said that those who lost their lives received no compensation. I presume he means those who lost their livelihoods not lives.
The Lake Peigneur disaster is remembered as a unique environmental catastrophe, showing the devastating consequences of industrial accidents in sensitive geological areas. Though nobody was hurt, the accident reshaped the landscape, transforming Lake Peigneur permanently and leaving behind a story that sounds almost too surreal to be true.
I grew up right there in New Iberia and went fishing regularly in Lake Peigneur. Congrats on pronouncing it correctly! 😂 The mansion chimney is a bit creepy, but the surrounding gardens are beautiful.
Somewhere I heard about this briefly, and even that the Diamond salt company doesn't exist any more. I suspect I heard about it because a freshwater lake got turned into a super-salty lake with unheard of organisms 10:23 in it.
Not too bad of an account. I worked for Live Oak Gardens, starting in 1981. The ecosystem is not shot and the lake was brackish to start with. The lake was and still is affected by the tide. Yes, they flubbed up and thankfully nobody was hurt. Salt domes and oil go hand in hand.
@@gestaposantaclaus yes, like a house of cards or balancing a broom on its handle tip. It was in an unstable equilibrium and any small perturbation would cause the draining. Could have been an earthquake in 200 years, by instead it was a human error.
9:03 "The workers who lost their lives got nothing" But there were no human casualties from this event... You said it yourself earlier in the video and I confirmed it from my own research.
I think he meant to say workers who lost their livelihoods but misspoke it as lives. That's how I took it at least. He records so many videos and at such a fast pace there's bound to be slip ups.
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.
In Ohio there are a lot of old coal mines that no one mapped as they dug them so all homes carry special insurance in case an unknown shaft underneath collapses. I even looked at one house that was for sale, the concrete floor in the garage was caved in. Found out the damage was due to an old mine shaft but the realtor tried saying it wasn’t likely to fall in any further and we could just pour a new concrete floor.
@@alexacarrillo4339 The panhandle of Florida is basically a several million year old coral reef with sand on top in a very humid climate with tons of rain. The only way you are going to get it to stop making sinkholes is wait until it erodes under sea level.
The whole video you emphasized none of the miners or oil riggers lost their lives then at 9:00 you say the workers who lost their lives got none of the $45 million monetary settlement? Which is it?
Being from Louisiana, Delcambre is pronounced "Delcomb" down here we have cajun French and names are pronounced very different from how they are spelled
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.
The salt deposits are present across the southern USA and Gulf of Mexico. They stretch thousands of miles and that's where all of the oil in the southern USA are located. It was a shallow sea millions of years ago.
He’s talking about losing their livelihoods. A lot of people in these trades don’t have anywhere else to go if that job were to disappear. They have good experience but nowhere to go. Do you not live in the real world? Never been around blue collar work? Or are you just as smooth brained as us Americans come? 😂
I'm with you. He said "lost their lives" and then he said "a lot of them also lost their jobs," so it clearly wasn't implying that losing their jobs was tantamount to losing their lives, since he said both. He detailed how drillers, miners, and fishermen escaped, and later said the dogs were the only casualties, so I am guessing that saying people had lost their lives was just a mistake in the script.
The highest waterfall part is funny. I live not far from there. There isn’t a 45 meter rise for quite a distance. If you want to fall you either have to climb a tree or dig a hole.
Offshore oil rigs are actually excellent fishing sites. They form massive vertical reefs that host fish at all trophic and depth levels. Very fun for spearing, also, there's something scarily mezmerizing about this massive structure underwater. It feels almost like discovering lost remnants of an alien civilization.
We pronounce Delcambre as Del-come. The lakes not the far from here. Parents tend to tell their kids what happened at the lake almost anytime they pass by it.
I clicked on the video and just let it play in the background, and I was like "wow this guy's prosody and inflection really reminds me of Simon" but somehow I didn't recognize the voice itself 😂
Texas Brine also drilled into a salt dome causing a sinkhole in Bayou Corn, it's been over ten years now and it continues to grow taking more and more land around it.
It’s incredible that they thought this much overlap in operations was a good idea. Also, that they thought emptying out the space beneath a lake was a good idea. This also goes to show how little regard corporations have for the natural world, for their workers, and for the surrounding communities.
Just a small bit of feedback - these videos are usually super highly produced and great. But in this video I struggled to hear a lot of the speech as the music was too loud over various parts.
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.
We have salt mines, lots of lakes, and lots of drilling down here in Louisiana. All big business for us providing alot of jobs and alot of revenue. Things happen. It sucks, but we deal with it and get on with life. We are a very hardy people who are very proud of Louisiana, our plentiful bodies of water and waterways, and our oil/gas industry. We deal with any mishaps...so don't worry about us. We got it covered.
Okay, I´m cunfused ... I´m almost certain this is the third video I see on this over the last few years ... and I´m pretty sure all of them were made by Simon. Just me?
Wait, you said there were no fatalities but then said some workers lost their lives and then said only 3 dogs died so I'm confused... (please excuse my pre-coffee brain)
1:00 Actually, as someone who's lived (and fished) in Louisiana waters, its waaay more common than non-locals would imagine for your favorite lake to fish in to also have some oil/gas drilling going on as well.
Texaco: we have no idea it even exists. We CLEARLY don't know anything about it. We ABSOLUTELY have no control about the operation. Why are you bothering us?
When I was younger I had this weird phobia when swimming in a lake or a big pool that a hole would open and a giant swirl would suck me down and drown me. Maybe this wasn‘t 100% irrational
This issue with co-ordinates and measurements is exactly why NASA and others have turned multimillion dollar space vehicles into sooty messes on several missions to Mars and other planets.
Simon, others may have mentioned this already, but I noticed that at about the 9:05 mark you mentioned that the miners that lost their lives had received no compensation. Earlier you said that no miners had lost their lives. I am taking it that you were going to say that they had received no compensation for losing their jobs. Not trying to be rude, just pointing it out. I enjoy your videos immensely and look forward to seeing many more.
We had a sumlar incident in wyoming, anchor dam was built on unstable ground sink hole pop uo time to time drainjng the lake by meters in a matter of hours. Surveyors and engineers saidn dont build a damn here but they did. Theres a reason you will never see a boat on that lake
@9:07: "Workers who lost their lives got nothing." Didn't he say earlier nobody was killed? And other sources indicate beyond a few animals being killed there no fatalities.
What a scenario. A sinkhole draining an entire lake sounds like something people from millenia ago would see as an act of divine intervention... That, or they'd be scared to ever go into a large body of water again. Or both 😅
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*well-known mining company exists as primary industry of area for decades*
Texaco: we will deny absolutely any knowledge of it existing
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'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 "wait, didn't you guys invent the modern coordinate systems?"
In another case with a MAJOR installation our client pretty much said "yeah we have no idea what system this is in. Could you find it and give us the coordinates in a standard system?" This particular object was on the seafloor...
I'm also a Land Surveyor. Got my PSM right out of the Navy, back in 2005. Here in Florida we have five datum ranges. If you're in 85Datum, while working in South Florida, your values will be off up to 3.5 feet, northing and easting. I've seen fellas stake entire parking lots out, only to discover their mistake when the driveway returns fall in the middle of an existing traffic lane. There's a new cancer center here in Orlando that looks like a Happy Meal box. The entire parking lot is off the same way, because the Surveyor I took over for did just that, and layed out the whole building in the wrong part of the property, which forced the parking lot the be twisted and smashed to fit. I spent two weeks sitting in my truck, completely redesigning the CADD file, to make sure we had the proposed number of parking spots, at the appropriate sizes, without encroaching on lot lines or interfering with DRAs. I swear, if I ever find the guy who screwed that pooch, I'm gonna feed him a field book.😂
Yeah, i'm a Geomatic. It happens to the best of us. Its pretty confusing, if the coordinates dont match with the cadastral map! (i hope your understand me, english isn't my native language)
@@SkunkApe407 One would think such Tasks get only carried out by absolute professionals who really know their shit.
OK, Mr. professional surveyor, (NO disrespect intended), I have one for you. After I became disabled, I moved my family to West Virginia so we could be closer to my wife's family. She helped my parents A LOT when they were alive so after they passed, I couldn't begrudge her wanting to help hers but I digress. This and my father in law gave us an acre of his "40 acres" to put a house on. My house was paid off when I went on disability and I inherited my parents house, both in Florida, so we did the Beverly Hillbilly thing. Sold them houses, loaded up a 27 foot Ryder and moved up here in 2001. My father in law and I walked down to where our land was to be and I brought a can of orange spray paint, 4) 1 inch rebar stakes and a 3 pound hammer. Understand, my father in law was Virginia backwoods born, 3rd grade educated, Marine, Korean war POW and set like concrete in his own way. I'm now 69 and had known him since I was 10. I know what I'm talking about. We stop at the edge of some woods. "Put a stake here." I pound one in and paint the top orange. We walk about 500 feet. "Put a stake here." I pound one in and paint the top orange......"Well, Whitey, where to now?" "That's all." HUH??? The property line, as written, (paraphrased), in the deed and registered with the county is, "From the road between the two front stakes approximately 500 feet. Back to the tree line behind the powerline easement. My lot, including 1/2 half being power easement, looks like a drunk tried to cut a perfect 1/4 of a pie. Kinda wonky. The legal property line in the back of the property is the tree line. The power company keeps the trees at the back of my patch of trees trimmed and also the front of where his property / trees now begin using a helicopter with 5 or 6 hanging saw blades like the one in the James Bond movie that tore apart the bait house, I forget the movie name. Hence the tree line stays basically the same. I put stakes in at the back corners anyway as I knew that he wasn't going to live forever and he previously sold an acre of property on the other side of me that was going to be improved upon soon also. He and I used to argue about different things, in a friendly way of course. I used to tell him to shut up or I'd get my chainsaw and move the property line back 10 or 12 yards. If I would have been smart, I could have had a major chunk of his property before he died. It's a long story as to how he lost control of his land. He would have been technically homeless had he not stipulated that he had lifetime residency rights. Of course we would have had him move in here but that wasn't necessary.
Oh, I almost forgot. When I said "40 acres" of his land. His deed gave specifically shaped boulders and their locations at the back of his property as property line markers. He said that he walked it off and it was closer to 70 acres. The copy of the deed that he got from the last owners was dated in the late 1920's. He bought the property in 1992.
Maybe this already well known, about 20 years ago, Switzerland and Germany decided to build a new bridge over the Rhine river that marks the border. They started from both sides, meeting in the middle. However, since Switzerland uses a different reference point for zero elevation above sea level than Germany, a correction of 27 cm had to be applied on one side.
Nothing extraordinary, but certainly very rare as such bridges aren’t build every year. At some point somebody changed a plus to a minus sign, and the correction was applied in the wrong direction, resulting in mismatch of 54 cm (21”). Construction was already well underway when workers noticed the mismatch visually.
Lake Emma in Colorado. Full one day. Sunnyside Mine underneath was full with Lake Emma the next day
Fish in a barrel. 👀
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.
I know someone very involved in offshore work.
It was NOT an accident.
Corner cutting and greed was to blame in the deep water horizon.
Believing it was an accident is like believing that they truly thought "WMDs were in Iraq". :P
Still an accident, just an accident caused by corner cutting and greed.
@@Pugjamin "forseeable inevitability" is probably the best way yo describe it, honestly 😅
My best friend from the Navy became a dive welder when we got out. He left the Horizon two weeks before it blew. He was working directly for BP's main contractor. He got payed to keep his mouth shut, but he leveled with me one night, when we were out scalloping. What he told me places all the blame on BP, and it most definitely was not an accident. I'd be willing to bet that what your friend told you was what mine told me, based on the implications in your comment. Let's just say that if the truth ever comes out, BP is done and some people are going to prison.
@@Pugjaminno, it wasn't an accident. I can't tell you what I know, without bringing a lot of heat onto someone who means a great deal to me, but trust me, it was not an accident. BP knew about a very specific problem, and gave a very specific. direct order, that led to what happened. Those at the top have blood on their hands. They know it. The dive crew that left shortly before the incident knows it. Even the survivors know it. But BP put a lot of dirty money in a lot of hands, and went to great lengths to make sure that nobody will talk for a long time. Believe what you will, but I got the skinny from a man who was on the rig, and who I have literally entrusted with my life on more than one occasion. That man and I bled together in Iraq. He gave me a live transfusion when I took a bullet, and almost died to save me. Anyone else might lie to me, but not that man.
Kudos to the engineer that saved the miners!
Contradiction at 9:03 and 9:40 saying workers lost lives then saying 3 dogs were the only casualties.
Was about to say the same thing.
i recall him saying several times that no lives were lost. unitll the end where he mentioned the 3 dogs.
@NotaNinja He says no lives were lost, then he said that those who lost their lives received no compensation.
I presume he means those who lost their livelihoods not lives.
"workers losing lives" = livelihoods. If you lose your life, you, by definition, get nothing. JustUseContext next time kid.
Ok so the dogs are not employees.
Very sad, but just shows how big companies do whatever they want, and, get away with it be they are rich. What a wonderful planet we live on.
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Yep. Money talks
Get used to it because America just elected an autocrat who will remove all guardrails to unfettered corpocracy.
You're talking like it's something new. It has always been that way and always will be.
Now i watch this as i sit and fish in my kayak. At least Texaco isn't drilling anywhere nearby!
Don't be too sure. It can happen to you too. Those Texaco oil sniffing dogs are everywhere.
...At least Texaco isn't drilling anywhere nearby!...
Who do you think taught God how to make black holes???
I always love hearing the story of Lake Peigneur.
This wasn't tampering with nature Simon, it was incompetence.
The Lake Peigneur disaster is remembered as a unique environmental catastrophe, showing the devastating consequences of industrial accidents in sensitive geological areas. Though nobody was hurt, the accident reshaped the landscape, transforming Lake Peigneur permanently and leaving behind a story that sounds almost too surreal to be true.
Great deep dive! Thank you! What a scary situation! I'm glad all of the people made it to safety!
I saw something about this like 30 years ago on one of those disaster shows on tlc history channel. I've been fascinated ever since
Back when the History and the Discovery channels actually had shows that reflected their names.
good times man, good times
2:57 Nice view of Swedish west coast archipelago.
I grew up right there in New Iberia and went fishing regularly in Lake Peigneur. Congrats on pronouncing it correctly! 😂 The mansion chimney is a bit creepy, but the surrounding gardens are beautiful.
Yeah, not so great at Del-cam-bray 😅 But Lake Peigneur was spot-on!
lol ye new Iberia here myself 😅
He pronounced Delcambre wrong though 🤣
Somewhere I heard about this briefly, and even that the Diamond salt company doesn't exist any more. I suspect I heard about it because a freshwater lake got turned into a super-salty lake with unheard of organisms 10:23 in it.
Not too bad of an account. I worked for Live Oak Gardens, starting in 1981. The ecosystem is not shot and the lake was brackish to start with. The lake was and still is affected by the tide. Yes, they flubbed up and thankfully nobody was hurt. Salt domes and oil go hand in hand.
Water is heavy as fuck. That’s insane the lake held out for that long.
Why would the lake NOT hold out?
@@Pugjamindid you not watch the video? There were enormous caverns under the lake
@@acmhfmggruthat only filled up because they were punctured by a deep bore drill…..
@@gestaposantaclaus yes, like a house of cards or balancing a broom on its handle tip. It was in an unstable equilibrium and any small perturbation would cause the draining. Could have been an earthquake in 200 years, by instead it was a human error.
Still lighter than soil.
9:03 "The workers who lost their lives got nothing" But there were no human casualties from this event... You said it yourself earlier in the video and I confirmed it from my own research.
Doublespeak...makes a true statement that alludes to something else.
he mightve meant their livelihood or jobs, no compensation or a settlement or anything
Maybe AI wrote the script
I think he meant to say workers who lost their livelihoods but misspoke it as lives. That's how I took it at least. He records so many videos and at such a fast pace there's bound to be slip ups.
Adam has some strange turns of phrase sometimes. Pretty sure he meant that they lost their livelihoods.
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.
I am constantly shocked by the way Florida allows homes to be built in areas they shouldn’t.
In Ohio there are a lot of old coal mines that no one mapped as they dug them so all homes carry special insurance in case an unknown shaft underneath collapses. I even looked at one house that was for sale, the concrete floor in the garage was caved in. Found out the damage was due to an old mine shaft but the realtor tried saying it wasn’t likely to fall in any further and we could just pour a new concrete floor.
@@TheVeggiekatPennsylvania and West Virginia have similar issues.
@@alexacarrillo4339 Pretty much all of Florida should not be built on.
@@alexacarrillo4339 The panhandle of Florida is basically a several million year old coral reef with sand on top in a very humid climate with tons of rain. The only way you are going to get it to stop making sinkholes is wait until it erodes under sea level.
Ill bet simon was stoked reading about those dogs. Monster 😂
The whole video you emphasized none of the miners or oil riggers lost their lives then at 9:00 you say the workers who lost their lives got none of the $45 million monetary settlement? Which is it?
I believe he meant to say livelihoods but misspoke
No one died I’m from here
yea i was wondering he said that then said 3 dogs were the only ones killed
@@steamro11r has no clue lol. Friends house is on the lake now.
Being from Louisiana, Delcambre is pronounced "Delcomb" down here we have cajun French and names are pronounced very different from how they are spelled
At least he got the lake name right
This disaster was crazy. Insane that the water flow into the salt mine was so strong the river began flowing backwards.
The suck was strong with that one
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Million years old salt species 😮❤❤
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.
8:51 magical whitening shirt!
I was searching the comments looking for someone else who noticed. I thought I was losing my mind for a bit there.
Been waiting for you to do this one for years!
The salt deposits are present across the southern USA and Gulf of Mexico. They stretch thousands of miles and that's where all of the oil in the southern USA are located. It was a shallow sea millions of years ago.
Lol geezer😌Simon’s not a robot, yet😂
We used to say going to work was the
Salt Mine. 😅
Excellent documentary! Thanks! 😃
Said there were no human casualties, but also said something about workers who lost their lives... Which is it?
Lost their jobs due to the salt mine being unusable. Of course in America losing your livelihood can be fatal.
He’s talking about losing their livelihoods. A lot of people in these trades don’t have anywhere else to go if that job were to disappear. They have good experience but nowhere to go. Do you not live in the real world? Never been around blue collar work? Or are you just as smooth brained as us Americans come? 😂
I'm with you. He said "lost their lives" and then he said "a lot of them also lost their jobs," so it clearly wasn't implying that losing their jobs was tantamount to losing their lives, since he said both. He detailed how drillers, miners, and fishermen escaped, and later said the dogs were the only casualties, so I am guessing that saying people had lost their lives was just a mistake in the script.
The workers were aliens 😂
I remember watching a documentary about this years ago. It's miraculous that no person died. Rip though to the poor dogs that didn't make it.
It must have been wild to witness this event unfold.
I remember that! I lived New Orleans back then .
He said “there weren’t any fatalities,” and then later says “the workers who lost their lives, got nothing.”
I think he meant “livelihoods” not lives.
Ghasticly Awesome ! Nice place forra float, I guess ?
@0:01 Your audio sounds different. If you're sick, I hope you feel better soon!!! 💯
The highest waterfall part is funny. I live not far from there.
There isn’t a 45 meter rise for quite a distance.
If you want to fall you either have to climb a tree or dig a hole.
Louisiana is the only state with no natural waterfall.
K-Mart giving away a Black & White TV? Yes please!
Offshore oil rigs are actually excellent fishing sites. They form massive vertical reefs that host fish at all trophic and depth levels. Very fun for spearing, also, there's something scarily mezmerizing about this massive structure underwater. It feels almost like discovering lost remnants of an alien civilization.
We pronounce Delcambre as Del-come. The lakes not the far from here. Parents tend to tell their kids what happened at the lake almost anytime they pass by it.
I clicked on the video and just let it play in the background, and I was like "wow this guy's prosody and inflection really reminds me of Simon" but somehow I didn't recognize the voice itself 😂
Texas Brine also drilled into a salt dome causing a sinkhole in Bayou Corn, it's been over ten years now and it continues to grow taking more and more land around it.
I have heardband seen this before,
very terrible. 😢
I'm going to dig a salt mine under a lake, what could possibly go wrong?
Texaco: You lack ambition, we're going to drill a hole though the lake bed!
It’s incredible that they thought this much overlap in operations was a good idea. Also, that they thought emptying out the space beneath a lake was a good idea. This also goes to show how little regard corporations have for the natural world, for their workers, and for the surrounding communities.
Just a small bit of feedback - these videos are usually super highly produced and great. But in this video I struggled to hear a lot of the speech as the music was too loud over various parts.
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.
We have salt mines, lots of lakes, and lots of drilling down here in Louisiana. All big business for us providing alot of jobs and alot of revenue. Things happen. It sucks, but we deal with it and get on with life. We are a very hardy people who are very proud of Louisiana, our plentiful bodies of water and waterways, and our oil/gas industry. We deal with any mishaps...so don't worry about us. We got it covered.
Okay, I´m cunfused ... I´m almost certain this is the third video I see on this over the last few years ... and I´m pretty sure all of them were made by Simon. Just me?
One of them was made by the guy that talks about cave and dive accidents a lot.
There are two by him on Today I Found Out, about four years apart.
Wait, you said there were no fatalities but then said some workers lost their lives and then said only 3 dogs died so I'm confused... (please excuse my pre-coffee brain)
1:00 Actually, as someone who's lived (and fished) in Louisiana waters, its waaay more common than non-locals would imagine for your favorite lake to fish in to also have some oil/gas drilling going on as well.
Despite the huge _human scale_ mess, mothernature just shrugs, "it's saltwater now, Ok, whatever." (To quote Pinky, "Oh, well, there you are then.")
Those guys must've been watching that, wondering "are we gonna get in trouble for this?"
This is why we have Master Underground Maps now
Texaco: we have no idea it even exists. We CLEARLY don't know anything about it. We ABSOLUTELY have no control about the operation. Why are you bothering us?
Others may have missed it, but I caught that wardrobe change...
Not many people know that there's a salt mine under Lake Michigan. If they mess up on digging, the same thing could happen there.
My father: "Fishing; a rod and a line with a worm on both ends."
He wasn't a fan.
Oops...
Salt domes in Louisiana are why we have Tabasco.
As a Louisianan yeah this tracks Louisianas natural resources have been exploited at every turn with reckless abandon
9:05 wait, what dead workers? You specifically stated noone died at the start
When I was younger I had this weird phobia when swimming in a lake or a big pool that a hole would open and a giant swirl would suck me down and drown me. Maybe this wasn‘t 100% irrational
Good video, but didn't they do a video on this already? Maybe it was part of another video?
"Call 811 before you dig" WTYP
This is in my hometown. So sad.
9:00 What workers who lost their lives? Nobody died.
he said several times no one died.
"Oooops" - Texaco worker, probably.
"so you're gonna hollow out the ground under this lake, and were gonna drill holes down through the lake?" "Yeah sounds good, what could go wrong?🤷" 🤦
9:03 I thought you said no one was killed. Where did this phrase come from?
any one else wish there had been a picture of said chimney?
I from near there. Why not show the chimney? It's super cool looking.
The chimney collapsed during the storms earlier this year unfortunately. The fireplace is still there but the chimney portion isnt
@@Pk-io6xe That's sad.
I wish the thumbnail matched the actual lake that drained...
A lake on my college campus vanished down a sinkhole overnight. It's still gone.
9:03 No one died.
this reminds me of that James Bond movie, "A View to a Kill"
This issue with co-ordinates and measurements is exactly why NASA and others have turned multimillion dollar space vehicles into sooty messes on several missions to Mars and other planets.
TWICE you flip-flopped back-and-forth between "there were no casualties" and "workers who lost their lives". Which is it!?!?
Hey Simon! Hey! 👋
Now do the sinkhole that swallowed the gypsum stack in Florida. Or did he do that already?
No fatalities but 3 dead, sweet puppies…I’d say that’s worse!
weirdly, just been reading about this in Matt Parker's book
and now I am sad for the 3 dogs... :(
So is this the fourth or fifth time Simon has made a video on this?
I swear I've seen Simon make a video about this before...
Wait.... I thought you said no workers lost their lives but at the end you said "the workers who lost their lives"
I can’t say how much I needed a video from you today, Simon and company. The USA is burning and I need all the distractions. Wtaf?
Simon, others may have mentioned this already, but I noticed that at about the 9:05 mark you mentioned that the miners that lost their lives had received no compensation. Earlier you said that no miners had lost their lives. I am taking it that you were going to say that they had received no compensation for losing their jobs. Not trying to be rude, just pointing it out. I enjoy your videos immensely and look forward to seeing many more.
Louisiana is a great place for fishing 💀💀💀
We had a sumlar incident in wyoming, anchor dam was built on unstable ground sink hole pop uo time to time drainjng the lake by meters in a matter of hours. Surveyors and engineers saidn dont build a damn here but they did. Theres a reason you will never see a boat on that lake
@9:07: "Workers who lost their lives got nothing." Didn't he say earlier nobody was killed? And other sources indicate beyond a few animals being killed there no fatalities.
What a scenario. A sinkhole draining an entire lake sounds like something people from millenia ago would see as an act of divine intervention...
That, or they'd be scared to ever go into a large body of water again. Or both 😅
So much video of this exists. You couldn’t get any?
That wasn't a sinkhole. That is entirely the wrong description for this cockup.
Yea, buddy. Mindlessly read that script.