"A giant sink hole opened up on Thursday, September 19 [1975] at a drilling site near Tampa, Florida and swallowed up a well-drilling rig, a water truck, and a trailer loaded with pipe all valued at $100,000. The well being drilled was down 200 ft when the ground began to give way to what turned out to be a limestone cavern. Within 10 minutes all the equipment was buried way out of sight in a crater measuring 300 ft deep, and 300 ft wide. Fortunately, the drilling crew had time to scramble to safety and no one was hurt." -from National Water Well Association newsletter
That’s nothing. Do a search on Lake Peigneur and the drilling disaster. They accidentally drilled into a salt mine. They had barges sucking down the hole and blowing out of the shaft of the salt mine on shore.
Pretty awesome. Thanks for that, Cvengr.
We all hope they people in the Antarctic are okay.