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I'll say it out loud- the little man looks like he has been swimming there since childhood.

I love how after he come 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

That's reactor 5, which wasn't finished and did not have any disasters. It's in the area of Chernobyl of course, so the water's not completely clean of radiation but they're nowhere near ground zero here. Reactor 5 was basically left to rot while being built and never even had a reactor installed into it.

To be fair, looking at Zeus, I don’t think this is his first exposure to radiation. Serious ‘Hills Have Eyes’ vibes going on here 🎉

These guys are the best friends ever. They taped the bicycle pump tube to the inside of that fishbowl with such care, so their friend would absolutely *not* drown in jet black radioactive waste water.

I've been diving since 1972. I've never been on the edge of my seat and laughing so hard at the same time.

I have claustrophobia and the fishbowl/heavy weight combo under muddy radioactive water is now one of my worst nightmares, thank you for that

I appreciate that you guys let the video play and threw in your expert opinion when needed. Overall a great watch!

stealing a 5-ton blast door out of an irradiated building is the most Soviet thing ever.

"I don't know guys, I think their diving gear is state of the art!" -- a 17th century diver

Zues, your an awesome dude. To the other Guy's, every group of friends has that one guy that will do crazier than the rest. I know it's a fun time, but when you physically have witnessed someone suffering with radioactive poisoning, it no joke. Stay safe and keep each other safe. Long healthy living for all of you.

My boy is smart the cameraman never dies

That scuba gear is the equivalent to the Logitech controller used in that submarine dive that went wrong 😂

when they started wrapping him in shrink wrap i knew the mission was going to be successful

Never in my life did I expect to be watching Zeus diving in radioactive Chernobyl water, dressed in a gimp suit with a fish bowl on his head today 😂. Bravo Zeus!!

Possibly the best video I’ve ever seen Zeus I’m praying for you buddy ❤️

for those who wanna know @ 13:50 - 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.

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. Completely sealed suit with duct tape on all joints, pressure testing to ensure there are no holes, and radiac (radiation meters to detect individual dosage) meters all over your body to detect all areas to ensure no part of the body has more radiation than the other parts, and finally the cleaning before and after with special chemicals before I can take off the dry suit, which made for a really long day on a very short dive. Why would anyone do this, but then, why do people dive caves without training? Just nuts. Thanks for posting this.

Somebody buy these guys a damn diving suit and goggles with a snorkel lmao

That man clearly lived locally and has built an immunity to the radiation. Real life fallout ghoul.

"this is not scuba diving gear this is just stuff" lmaooooo I laughed so hard at how accurate that was

Their homemade suit is the kind of thing you expect to get delivered to you from Wish after ordering a 'full dive suit' 😂

I've seen a lotttttt of things on the internet but this literally is singlehandedly thee single greatest craziest thing I've ever seen! thankyou!

Zeus is an absolute legend in the radioactive diving community.

The fact that most of these guys look like cartoon characters and spend 95% of their plight giggling and Looney Tuning around makes this so much better.

I used to have the exact same inflatable boat they are using. It leaked at the seams after the first few uses. Later it got poked through with a lake weed. Not a stick, or hardened dead water plant, a live plant. I was shocked it took as long as it did to start giving them trouble.

There is another episode where they get caught again and the guard is a fan that takes pictures with them. On a side note this is a reactor that is in the exclusion zone but a good distance from the failed reactor. This was the unfinished reactor that was abandoned during construction/never operational, (I think it is a few miles or km from the failed reactor, the sarcophagus is visible from the roof of the reactor they are in) the radioactivity level in here is actually going to be lower than outside. The water is safe, the sediment at the bottom of those levels/ under the water would be of concern due to settling. Also now that they have the additional dome over the sarcophagus outside levels are close to normal to my understanding, but there are still hot spots/objects that need cleaning. The Dome was erected to dismantle the sarcophagus and clean up everything underneath for further containment. This process is going to take lifetimes. Also they have all been tested for both external and internal radiation after multiple trips, with Sus even swallowing water in the one episode. They have all come back with normal readings and are healthy.

I can’t wait until the episode where Zeus is sent to space. His Russian friends are going to strap Zeus to a rocket and wrap him in bubble wrap. Russian engineering at its finest.

In terms of radiation, I would bet it’s currently safer in the water than in the air. The water is absolutely loaded with radioactive isotopes of course, but breathing in that ash decreases your lifespan.

The -3.00 and -6.00 was not a temperature as the Man pointed out. The -3.00 pointing down the hallway was saying they would still be 3 meters below ground and -6.00 pointing towards the stairs going down indicates 6 Meters below ground. These buildings have the same numbers on every floor above ground without the - symbol since it would be above ground.

Honestly, I love the voice-over... makes the whole situation seem like it's "not that bad," lol.

I love your show man … this really made my day

zues lost his hair when they reutrned on the boats lmao

If you wear an Adidas track suit and drink enough vodka you become permanently immune to radiation, freezing, and bears.

I just watched their medical checkup, they said they accidentally fell into some water lol. They were panicking but amazingly were fine, although they were warned to stay away from those areas. A later video shows them exploring a laboratory where they mess around a radioactive boot and the radiation meter goes off the scale, they stay there uncomfortably long.

Woody is great! He is so brave to share his opinon as a special person 😊. That tiny little head of his is so fully of amazing ideas!

happy I watched to the end with the damn flare looking like a warhead

This is one of the funniest things I’ve watched in a long time

So those guys in the video are actually russian speaking Ukrainians. And this is not the craziest thing they did. Sus stands for Susanin - a russian hero who is believed to live in 1613 and saved russian tsar Mikhail Romanov from Polish troops during the winter by promising to show the shortcut through the forest, but took them into the remote area instead and let them freeze to death. Regarding the radiation level: The object where they are in the beginning and touching bottles is filmed at Blocks 5 and 6 that were unfinished at the time of disaster and were scraped for the most part. They are not where the explosion happened and those were never in service. There is no active work there so this part of the power plant is not guarded. The radiation level there is adeqate, but there are a "hot" objects, meaning some specific items may be very radioactive, so you never know. What they use for diving in a fist part is a soviet era military chemical defense suit. It is not water proof, but is supposed to keep all chemical threats away from your body... I would rate it as "splash proof" :) Marks -3.00 and -6.00 are the levels. All station floors are marked as elevation above or below the surface level. So we may ussume there are 2 flooded floors under them. Sus was alive at the time of writing this comment and was exploring the tunnels under the city of Kiev. He has his youtube channel.

I think we all have that one friend like Zeus. You get him drunk at the party, and he’ll do any dumb thing you tell him to do. But we love him.

I cant believe they tried to stick a fish bowl on his head.. i did the exact same thing as a kid, stuck a home hardware bucket on my head and got my friend to stand on it as i walked into the lake 😭 worked about as well as it did for him

When he pulled out his “scuba gear” couldn’t contain myself 😂

This was reactor #5, which wasn't to go online for a few more months..It was 85% completed at the time of the accident and never had any nuclear rods delivered to the site. It was radioactive because of its' proximity to the events at reactor #4, but the levels here were minor, even though it was so close to the disaster blast. Winds were the savior of this area as they blew the major contaminants away from this site. Now, it is worth mentioning that these guys are definitely crazy, but in a later episode of their Vlog, they went and got seriously tested for radiation exposure and were all given the A-O-K from the MD's. Still, stupid to try that diving rig...what a trip...

I have been going back and forth binging between you guys and Mr. Ballen @Mrballen. I love your channel!

I love how they called a fish bowl with a thin hose “scuba gear”

Scuba diving using gas mask is the whole new level of madness i have ever seen.

I love how this man lost all his hair after taking that dive and they still aren't taking any hints that this is a bad idea

I don’t even know how I got hooked on this channel being that I’m deathly afraid of deep water, claustrophobic and have never scuba dived in my life. Yet, you guys always make me chuckle just by expression alone. Especially you Woody. Keep that sh*t up. You guys are so knowledgeable, I’ll at least learn some things.

28:24 that's how it used to work a long time ago no regulators just a hose with some one on the surface pumping air in it did work but there where a lot of accidents

11:37 its far below the water table and over time the walls have eroded so the water has leaked into the structure. Basically the same thing as an old flooded basement.... Also of course there is years of rain built up and never pumped out too.

Even without the radiation imagine how full of chemicals that water is

I love that the guy who can't stop laughing is the one keeping this dude Alive by pumping the air

high amounts of cesium, tritium and plutonium were delivered to groundwater due to leakage of enriched water from the 4th reactor while building of the “Shelter” was in progress[2][5] As a result, considerable amounts of water condensed inside the “Shelter” and absorbed radiation from nuclides-containing dust and fuels. Although most of this water evaporated, some portions of it leaked to groundwater from the surface layers under the reactor chambers.[5]

The principle of the fish bowl kind of worked like an open bottomed diving bell by pressurisation to a 'little' depth, but you could not swim horizontal😆

Buddy's worried about his skin peeling off his hand from the radiation after trying to stick tape to a wet boat but not when he's splashing around waist deep in radioactive water trust me this guy takes his health seriously

LOL i cracked up so many times during this episode... especially after they got arrested and warned, then it just immediately cuts to them going back to the place even more "prepared" (with a leaking boat lol). Gus cracking up just made it all even funnier.

he even looks like this isn't his first time diving in radioactive water

Immediately knew it was going to be Super SuS after reading the title. I feel like hes immune to radiation.

Zeus returned with a bald head after his first dive, i havent laughed this hard in a while. These guys are geniuses

He's FREE diving no mask EYES OPEN in the Chernobyl waters. Man is a LEGEND

I feel the one guy may have been taken advantage of

This literally looks just like some kind of fallout 4 dungeon

The sub-basements of the Chernobyl power plant all had pipes burst during the meltdown, flooding the lower areas. Most of this water was extremely radioactive, and is what the chernobyl liquidators had to wade through to help contain the potential fallout of the disaster. Many of the liquidators died from radiation sickness.

I feel like these guys would have actually found the damn reactor if they went prepared enough. These guys are insane

to be fair Zeus already looks like he was in the fallout

water acts like a radiation shield and its a great one too youd need to be like 6 inches away from the radioactive thing to actually get hit with radiation emited by it but water turns all that radiation into heat so you might be cooked alive (this is in radioactive waste pool scenario)

I love how Zues looks like he’s been diving in Chernobyl since he was born.

True story; before the world knew how dangerous radiation was, some people actually used to DRINK radium because they thought it was healthy. One guy's jaw literally fell away from his face after doing this for a while. I hope these guys know what they're doing.

Dude must dive some really wide caves.

They posted another video recently and the fish bowl was still there years after recording this lol.

The water was also most likely largely from the explosion itself. They opened all the water valves and flooded the reactor after it exploded. There were some guys that had to go in there to shut the water off. They were in full dive suits and had to go in there and shut it off back in the 80s. Its nuts. Those guys are still alive i think or if they're dead it was only recently.

So I visited Chernobyl back in 2019, I took a guided tour and learned a little bit about it and what things are like there. The guided tours are pretty much safe, the whole exclusion zone is relatively well mapped out as far as where radiation hot spots are and where to avoid. It's not like everything you touch is 100% radioactive and emitting dangerous levels of radiation. That's definitely not to say there isn't seriously dangerous spots and areas that can still kill you, there is, but not everything is contaminated. Some of the reactors are actually still working and providing power to Kyiv and have workers there every day to run the still working reactors / others working on dismantling reactor #4 (which is going to take like over 100 years to do). From a quick google map satellite search it looks like they entered a derelict building that's 1.7km from reactor #4 to the SE and between the reactor and the cooling towers. I have no clue if it is possible to get into reactor #4 from this location but given the proximity and the fact the cooling towers are past this building I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way in but I have no clue tbh. I find it surprising they don't have detectors / dosimeters to keep track of their exposure and see if they run into a spot with elevated levels but just being in the building isn't a guarantee they are being exposed to dangerous levels. The water isn't guaranteed to be radioactive like they're "diving" in old coolant water that used to be in contact with the core, I still wouldn't want to dive in it but it depends on a lot of things whether the water is radioactively dangerous or not..... That diving gear is more likely to kill them than the radiation lol absolutely nuts!

there is a video of him going to the hospital after to check for radiation

“Will you go instead of me?” “No.”

Diving near a radiation source is actually surprisingly safe as long as you don't get too close; water absorbs radiation extremely well. What THESE guys are doing though, is absolute insanity, clearly :P

He shaved his head to be able to tape the camera to his head 😂😂😂 what a legend

The crazies part about this, is how well it actually works. There's a certain kind of genius it needs to be really stupid consistently. This might be the greatest video I have seen in years, and I'm only at part 1.

Guy with one tooth , looks like he's had multiple exposures

You know it's really bad when Woody, the man who literally volunteers himself to do every single crazy thing he sets his eyes on, is shaking his head "hell no" throughout the entire video.

I personally knew a naval cook whom worked on a hot ship. This ship was exposed to fallout during nuclear tests. He was never on the ship at that time but long after. After and during his shifts he would smoke with friends leaning his hip upon on a rail. Later he had many many skin cancer lesions removed from his hip and later they found that particular rail to be a paticullary active area of course the navy never accepted responsibility. (Edit please read details below per reply to DW)

Bro when he said aww he got no hair i lost it

Holycrap that dude 6 minutes in is already having an adverse reaction

As far as I know, there was huge amount of water pumped in to cool down the melting reactor in 1986 during the desperate efforts of bringing it under control. The entire underground levels were submerged. Rain source or not, being in the same forth reactor unit should mean it's as radioactive as the initial cooling water, because at some point they started mixing.

This guy is an absolute legend in urban exploration through old soviet tunnels. This is right up his alley with exception to diving lol

Took "you only live once" to the max😂

Zeus look like he have been swimming there since he was 1 years old.

I’m taking a nuclear engineering class and I learned that water actually deflects radiation as opposed to soaking it, theoretically you could swim right up to a nuclear reactor in water and not be affected by the radiation, however you would instantly vaporize if you were to touch it because of the massive amounts of heat.

This is like watching Jackass and Goonies at the same time! I love how they keep laughing and having fun throughout! Duct tape on the boat, a fish bowl, and cops waiting for you! If the 80’s had Instagram or youtube it’d be filled with this 😂

"That looks...safe." Im crying over here 😂

Chernobyl was flooded by the russians after the reactor blew up, they were spraying water everywhere for 2 reasons, 1 they wanted to keep the radioactive dust down so they dont breathe it, 2 to cool the reactor that was out of control hot and just kept getting hotter and hotter, they sprayed millions of gallons of water on the reactor.

They should have wore one of those badges that radiology staff wear that capture how much radiation you're exposed to over time. Would be nuts to see the results after just this one experience.

The radiation situation is complicated. Sometimes it's heavier sometimes lighter, but diving in water specifically is actually not too dangerous as the water will absorb a significant portion of the radiation before it even makes it away from the particle by a significant amount. They are also in reactor 5/6 building, which was abandoned after the 4th exploded. Someone almost certainly knows they are there and we're paid to ignore it.

He’s like the Smigel of the radioactive building.

as the camera goes into the water you can see the radiation grain lmao

Preface: I work as a nuclear engineer. The most dangerous potential thing is contamination (think radioactive dust) because you can not only breathe it in but also it will stick to your clothes and skin and stuff until you wash it off. As far as the exclusion zone, it's about 1000 square miles, there's government checkpoints but people sneak in between them at night. I doubt there's a secret tunnel into the reactor 4 building. The whole point of the cleanup was to contain the nuclear materials within the sarcophagus (now covered with another building). And as far as swimming in this water (I'm not going to call this diving out of respect for you two), it's a little Wile E Coyote for my liking... But, you should look into the three engineers who drained the steam suppression pool. I don't think they actually "dove" but they're known as the Chernobyl divers.

The fact that Gus was so amused and mind blown from the stupidity, hearing him laugh was what made this video a million times better 😂😂😂😂 i actually just came across you guys and you definitely gained a new supporter ❤ keep doin your thing guys.

imagine they went to the elephant's foot and touched it

Respect for not being put off by not having actual diving gear

I’m dying laughing. I can’t believe you guys even considered this close enough to “diving” to cover on the channel. I had actually seen the first part of this video and had most of the same reactions as Woody. X-D