Lake Peigneur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Lake Peigneur is a 1,300 feet (396 meters) deep, salt-water, lake near New Iberia, Louisiana. The name Peigneur is French for 'comber'.
The lake was previously a three foot (91 cm) shallow fresh-water lake until an unusual man-made catastrophe on November 21, 1980. At that time, Diamond Crystal operated a salt mine under the lake while a Texaco oil rig was drilling down from the surface of the lake."
