SCOUT· 45%1h 23m·2026-10-30·StorytellingWe Drilled Into A Lake Buried Under The Uzbek Desert. Something Has Been Waiting There Since 1977
In 1977, a Soviet water crew abandoned its drilling camp in the Uzbek desert, and the men who never came home were written off as deserters. One of them left a four-year-old son who grew up hearing that his father had walked away. Forty-six years later, that son is a Texas well driller who has never walked off a rig,…
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