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Home made dive suit

Guys use a home made dive suit to explore flooded floors at Chernobyl NPP. Video: https://youtu.be/HaGWj-G8xbE?t=920

Submitted on 09/12/2021

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: https://youtu.be/HaGWj-G8xbE?t=920 5/11/2021

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
While we typically don't award videos without an accompanying detailed writeup, I'm willing to accept this as an HM. Given their homemade gear that looks VERY haphazard to put it nicely I'm betting it's just a matter of time before they're truly in the running.


Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Holy crap, what are they thinking. It's still radioactive around there!