Raw Video: Tugboat Pushes Barges on Miss. River

The 'Bettye M. Jenkins' tugboat assists in pushing barges loaded with light cycle oil upriver, underneath the bridges connecting Natchez, Miss., and Vidalia, La., in the swollen Mississippi River, Saturday. (May 21). LINK: Youtube

An entire lake, with its barges, is sucked into a sinkhole

An old story, from 1980, when an oil drilling rig punctured an underground salt mine and an entire lake and its contents and much of the shoreline was sucked down into the resulting sinkhole. About 10 minutes, and quite interesting. LINK

When a Texaco oil rig mis-triangulates its drilling position and hits a nearby salt mine full of workers, an entire lake complete with homes, barges, and land drain into the enormous sink hole. Soon the river reverses direction and brings in water from the ocean, swallowing up more land. LINK: Youtube