A Louisiana man reportedly drowned after he asked his girlfriend to marry him in an underwater proposal, she said in a social media post. "You never emerged from those depths, so you never got to hear my answer, 'Yes! Yes!
ABC News' Kenneth Moton reports. A Louisiana man reportedly drowned after he asked his girlfriend to marry him in an underwater proposal, she said in a social media post. "You never emerged from those depths, so you never got to hear my answer, 'Yes!
A Louisiana man’s romantic underwater marriage proposal to his girlfriend ended in tragedy when he reportedly drowned while popping the question at an East Africa island resort.
Within two years, three lawyers regularly used by DuPont were hired by the state D.E.P. in leadership positions. One of them was placed in charge of the entire agency. ‘‘The way that transpired was just amazing to me,’’ Bilott says.
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On Nov. 20, 1980, an oil rig in Lake Peigneur was doing exploratory drilling when they punctured the salt dome below Jefferson Island. The hole resulted in a massive sinkhole, which drained the lake and caused the Delcambre Canal to backflow into the hole.
On November 20, 1980, a normal day on the Lake Peigneur was abruptly interrupted by the tremors of a 14-inch Texaco drill bit which made a catastrophic error due to a misread map that misplaced the exploratory drilling operation. Instead of striking black oil, they hit white salt.
40,000 feetThe Avery Island mine, Swisher said, may contain salt to a depth of 40,000 feet.
Lake PeigneurLake Peigneur is a small saltwater lake near the Vermilion Bay in south Louisiana. The lake has a maximum depth of 200 feet and is the deepest lake in Louisiana.
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It seems their drill had accidentally penetrated a main shaft of the Diamond Crystal salt mine, whose tunnels crisscrossed the rock under the lake. Lake water was now rushing into the mine through the rapidly expanding 14-inch hole in the salt dome, with a force ten times that of a fire hydrant.
That was crude oil and natural gas bubbling up from below ground. It was a mystery at first, but now authorities say an abandoned salt cavern collapsed, shifting the rock and salt formations deep below, causing the sinkhole above and unleashing hydrocarbons into the groundwater aquifer up to two miles from the site.
ABC News' Kenneth Moton reports. A Louisiana man reportedly drowned after he asked his girlfriend to marry him in an underwater proposal, she said in a social media post.
The couple was vacationing at The Manta Resort on Pemba Island in Tanzania. The resort confirmed to ABC News that a "male guest tragically drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room.". (MORE: 22-year-old drowns when swept out to sea near Florida) Kenesha Antoine/Storyful.
South Lake Tahoe Police Department officials said the recovery was the deepest ever recorded in Lake Tahoe, which is the second-deepest lake in the United States at a maximum depth of 1,645 feet, and one expert said it was the deepest recovery ever recorded in North America.
CBS Sacramento reports that after several days of unsuccessful searches for the body, Normoyle's family sought the help of a nonprofit organization, called Bruce's Legacy, that specializes in underwater body recoveries.
Although the recession of Louisiana's coast has slowed somewhat this decade, a football field’s worth of wetlands still vanishes every 100 minutes, according to the United States Geological Survey. That is one of the highest rates on the planet, accounting for 90 percent of such losses in the continental United States.
Thousands of miles of canals have been dredged through marshes for access. They broaden each year from erosion caused by boat traffic and storm currents, even as their spoil banks block natural water flow. A 50,000-mile thicket of pipelines connects rigs to refineries and tank farms across the state.
His strategy was to secure so much public investment for Jean Lafitte that it would eventually become too valuable to abandon. In a decade, he had built a 1,300-seat auditorium, a library, a wetlands museum, a civic center and a baseball park.
Just two miles north is the jagged tip of a fortresslike levee, a primary line of defense for greater New Orleans, whose skyline looms in the distance. Everything south of that 14-foot wall of demarcation, including the gritty little town of Jean Lafitte, has effectively been left to the tides. The Drowning Coast.
Bald cypress trees are dying off from saltwater intrusion, a result of rising sea levels, subsidence and erosion. Since prospectors first discovered oil in Louisiana 117 years ago, 57,465 wells have been drilled in 10 coastal parishes, according to the state’s Department of Natural Resources.
Jean Lafitte did not have a stop light, but it had a senior center, a medical clinic, an art gallery, a boxing club, a nature trail and a visitor center where animatronic puppets acted out the story of its privateer namesake.
When the Army Corps of Engineers first mapped out Louisiana’s hurricane protection system in the 1970s and 1980s , it drew the footprint just north of Lafitte. The priority was to protect New Orleans, its booming West Bank suburbs and Louisiana’s ports (the state has five of the country’s 12 largest ).
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare. Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career — and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution.
J ust months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, W.Va., said that his cows were dying left and right. He believed that the DuPont chemical company, which until recently operated a site in Parkersburg that is more than 35 times the size of the Pentagon, was responsible. Tennant had tried to seek help locally, he said, but DuPont just about owned the entire town. He had been spurned not only by Parkersburg’s lawyers but also by its politicians, journalists, doctors and veterinarians. The farmer was angry and spoke in a heavy Appalachian accent. Bilott struggled to make sense of everything he was saying. He might have hung up had Tennant not blurted out the name of Bilott’s grandmother, Alma Holland White.
By the ’90s, Bilott discovered, DuPont understood that PFOA caused cancerous testicular, pancreatic and liver tumors in lab animals. One laboratory study suggested possible DNA damage from PFOA exposure, and a study of workers linked exposure with prostate cancer.
In 1991, DuPont scientists determined an internal safety limit for PFOA concentration in drinking water: one part per billion. The same year, DuPont found that water in one local district contained PFOA levels at three times that figure. Despite internal debate, it declined to make the information public.
He was 7 years old. The visit to the Grahams’ farm was one of his happiest childhood memories. When the Grahams heard in 1998 that Wilbur Tennant was looking for legal help, they remembered Bilott, White’s grandson, who had grown up to become an environmental lawyer.
The property would have been even larger had his brother Jim and Jim’s wife, Della, not sold 66 acres in the early ’80s to DuPont. The company wanted to use the plot for a landfill for waste from its factory near Parkersburg, called Washington Works, where Jim was employed as a laborer.
Bilott is given to understatement. (‘‘To say that Rob Bilott is understated,’’ his colleague Edison Hill says, ‘‘is an understatement.’’) The story that Bilott began to see, cross-legged on his office floor, was astounding in its breadth, specificity and sheer brazenness. ‘‘I was shocked,’’ he said.
On Saturday, August 3 rd, an unnamed 6-year-old male was found unconscious in a wave pool at the Daytona Lagoon waterpark in Daytona Beach, Florida. According to early reports, the boy was found unconscious in the wave pool but could not be resuscitated by lifeguards and died enroute to a Daytona-area hospital.
At about 10:00 p.m. on July 4 th, 42-year-old Christopher Hayes was found unconscious in the wave pool at the BSR Cable Park in McLennan County (Waco), Texas . Although rescuers were able to restore Hayes’ pulse, he did not survive his injury and died two days later at a Waco hospital.
Depending on the size of the pool and the amount of water introduced, some pools are capable of producing waves of up to 6 feet in height using the latter technique.
When the first wave pool opened at Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey in the early 1980s there were at least 3 deaths reported before the facility was later closed following a long series of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits.
As we mentioned earlier, wave pools can be dangerous by the physical requirements of generating waves. This danger also extends to waterpark attractions such as water slides, “lazy rivers,” and to other attractions that rely on a water depth that is greater than the height of most children and young adults. Since such depths are often linked to accidental drowning deaths, a waterpark owner could be held liable if water depth can be shown to have played a role in an accident.
Once a person begins drowning, he or she must be rescued in 20 to 60 seconds. This is as long as the body can remain upright in the water. In the case of young children, they may struggle for even less time before their body is worn out, and emergency rescue is required.
Every year in the United States, around 10 people die from unintentional drowning, according to the CDC. That is more than 3,000 drowning victims every year in the U.S. alone, making it the fifth leading cause of unintentional injury death in the country. Accidental drowning is a devastating event, and while the legal ramifications are not the most important element when experiencing this tragedy, it is important to understand this aspect of your situation. For this reason, you should contact Arnold & Itkin as soon as possible.
When people hear about a child drowning, they often jump to pointing the finger at the parents. It is easy to blame poor parenting, but the issue runs much deeper. Many incidents involving children drowning involve heartbroken parents who merely looked away for seconds, were convinced their child was inside the house or had a watchful on them as they swam, only to see their child hurt due to a dangerous defect .
Drowning victims also don’t typically wave for help. If a person is drowning, the body's instincts kick in, causing the victim to extend his or her arms laterally and press down on the surface of the water. This action propels the body upwards and allows the victim to breathe.