The Cornfield Meet: Technology Disaster's Edition presents the Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident by Michele Sargent.

In 1980, Lake Peigneur was an unremarkable body of water. The freshwater lake covered 1300 acres of land and was only 11 feet deep. A small piece of land, Jefferson Island, was home to a beautiful botanical park. Deep beneath the lake there was a salt mine. This beautiful area changed dramatically on the early morning of November 21, 1980 when the largest man-made vortex sucked down everything it could.

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