[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.
Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.
The story of the hand-dug well: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...
What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/
Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes
Site down?
The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all.
I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
Yes, but there aren't any people in that one.
> even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
Kola Superdeep Borehole is not massive. It's a small cylindrical hole in the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...
Mponeng is a massive continuously commercially operating mine with 5k workers
I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.
Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...
[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.
What are all those oops for?
Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
collapses and floods it looks like. Here's the oops for the Pantai Remis mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA
Wow, that's pretty "oops" if I ever saw it!