Bonne Terre Mine to Be featured in the HISTORY CHANNEL's "Life after People"

Online, December 6, 2009 (Newswire.com) - The worlds largest freshwater dive resort only 60 minutes south of St. Louis, Bonne Terre Mine to be featured in LIFE AFTER PEOPLE - Episode 9 which wiil air on the History channel.

LIFE AFTER PEOPLE examines how "mans majesty over nature has always been an illusion" and what will it be like when man no longer exists on earth. One place on the globe that it has happened is Bonne Terre Mine. Once the largest lead mine in the world and the largest man made caverns in the world, it now lies dormant as a time capsule into history. When the pumps were shut off in the 500 plus feet deep mine it began to fill with natural spring water. Now when you enter the mine you get an eerie feeling as the only noises you hear are the occasional tour guides taking you back into history and the air bubbles from the scuba divers from around the globe.

Theses days the only people visiting the mine are those that wish to go back into history. A virtual time capsule to all wishing to examine what life is like after the miners are gone. The History channel's "Life after People" will examine and focus on what life is like at Bonne Terre Mine then and now. Interviewees will include Mark Eberhart from the Colorado School of Mines and Doug and Catherine Goergens owners and developers of the largest freshwater dive resort in the world, Bonne Terre Mines "Billion Gallon Lake Resort". The Goergens also are the owners and developers of the Maya Palms Resort south of Cancun in Costa Maya, Mexico.