Why Nobody Wants to Visit Bombay Beach Anymore

The Salton Sea is California's largest accidental lake, created in 1905 when the Colorado River ran the wrong way for 18 months. This documentary traces the ungated cut that sent 90,000 cubic feet per second into the desert, the Southern Pacific Railroad's 52-day battle to seal it on February 10, 1907, and the 1950s boom that sold Bombay Beach as a desert Palm Springs. It then reveals the sea's collapse into toxic dust, the failed dust-control plan and the 231 residents who still refuse to leave. 0:00 A Sea That Shouldn't Exist 0:31 The Accident That Made It 4:30 Ten Years of Paradise 9:40 The Water With No Way Out 12:14 The Night It Flooded 14:37 The Years of Mass Death 17:16 The Poison in the Dust 22:15 Who's Still There Today #california #tragicstory #historymystery