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...

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.

Kudos to the engineer that saved the miners!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Contradiction at 9:03 and 9:40 saying workers lost lives then saying 3 dogs were the only casualties.

It's comforting to know that Texaco and the oil industry as a whole have since learned their lesson and are going above and beyond to not impact the natural world around us.

Now i watch this as i sit and fish in my kayak. At least Texaco isn't drilling anywhere nearby!

2:57 Nice view of Swedish west coast archipelago.

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.

This disaster was crazy.  Insane that the water flow into the salt mine was so strong the river began flowing backwards.

I always love hearing the story of Lake Peigneur.

Great deep dive! Thank you! What a scary situation! I'm glad all of the people made it to safety!

We used to say going to work was the
Salt Mine. 😅

A similar accident occurred here in Minnesota in the 1920s @ the Milford Mine. Basically a whole lake drained when the underground mine collapsed, killing 41 miners.

any one else wish there had been a picture of said chimney?