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Oil drilling: Wrong coordinate system creates lake 1,300 feet deep (1980)
- nikkiofearth 8y agosettled out of court! wtf
- craftyguy 8y agoToo bad the premise for this post is completely uncited: > the rig was positioned as if the coordinates were in the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system when, in actuality, they were in transverse Mercator projection[citation needed]
- salty_biscuits 8y agoAnd doesn't quite make sense either. Transverse Mercator is a family of transformations, not a particular projection. Seems more likely they got confused between a local projection and some other one. Really easy to do.
- tonyedgecombe 8y ago"The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres (26 ha) of the surrounding terrain." It's remarkable nobody lost their life.