YouTubers go diving in Chernobyl before being caught by the police in insane video
YouTubers went diving in Chernobyl before being caught by the police in an insane video.
The footage showed a group of people breaking into the buildings surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
Back in 1986, the power plant produced the largest uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment ever recorded for any civilian operation.
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The video was originally uploaded by Kreosan English, which followed the group diving in an effort to reach the reactor that had exploded nearly 40 years ago.
Two YouTubers from Dive Talk reacted to the footage, where they watch the group explore the radioactive area.
Watching them climb into a building, one of them is shocked, commenting: “I mean, who would go in there? You don’t know what’s in there.”
They watch on as one man, known as Zeus, jumps into unknown water without any “mask and no fins”.
He goes “free diving” into the potentially dangerous water before he reveals that he didn’t see anything because “the water is too dirty”.
However, when the group returned to their shelter, they found that there was police watching for them.
The men from the Dive Talk explained: “They got busted and the cops are like, ‘well the reason why we're waiting here and didn't come to where you were is because we want to live’.”
The daredevil group was taken to a local police station where their passports were checked and they were given a verbal warning before being released.
Viewers of the video were shocked and took to the comment section to share their reactions, with one user writing: “I love how after he comes up from his "dive" in the stairwell, they start asking his questions about the building layout. As if he gained some insight while splashing around in there drinking radiade.”
Another said: “I've been diving since 1972. I've never been on the edge of my seat and laughing so hard at the same time.”
A third added: “That's not a diving suit, that's a soviet era military chemical protection suit. new and properly tied to the body it can be hermetically sealed, but by no means it's a diving suit.”
And a fourth person wrote: “That is just nuts. No equipment, no detection means they have no idea how bad it could be for them in the long run. I dove a nuclear reactor tank, and the measures we had to do are insane.”