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MrAdaam
719 posts
35 months
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I'd be very interested to go to Chernobyl. Let me know if anything comes of it Danny. There is something strangely facsinating about it all I think.
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DanDC5
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36 months
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Stiglet80 said: Is that out yet? Never seen it advertised anywhere, and it looks quite good.
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Stiglet80
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56 months
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DanDC5 said: Is that out yet? Never seen it advertised anywhere, and it looks quite good. I think it said this summer, but being a bit of an obscure film might not get it everywhere, if anyone sees it playing anywhere, let me know! DannyScene said: Stiglet - Do you just do buildings or are there any good drainz in lincoln? (Got a bit of a sewer bug atm) Never done much draining, mostly buildings and RAF bases for me. Never seen much on our local club about them either so I don't think there is. There is underground tunnels apparently. Existance debatable.
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llewop
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80 months
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Transmitter Man said: The wife is Ukrainian and when Chernobyl went south, she did too. As part of the former Soviet Union she moved to Yalta in the Crimea to get as far away from the fallout. She said after flying into Kiev you can hire a car for the circa 100kM drive but she did say if you visit even now you'll be glowing in the dark!Be careful - and you're not invited round here for breakfast  Phil Wrong and wrong: You might be able to hire a car (although you'd be mad to - crazy crazy drivers!) - but you'll never get to Chernobyl with it - there is a 30km exclusion zone around it. If you want to do the tourist thing, there are trips you can arrange that start in Kiev and take you back there. If you visit there now - as long as you don't go wandering off, no significant risks (certainly not radiological ones!). I could post a video from last month (26th anniversary of the accident) where the Ukrainian president is doing a speech in front of the shelter (the local term for the sarcophagus) with worlds press and various diplomats watching on - all about 500m to the West of the shelter, no problem.
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BruceV8
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116 months
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Isn't that one of the great things about PH? No matter how arcane the subject of discussion, somewhere on here is someone who works, lives or is an expert in that area!  ETA in llewop's case, all three!
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Stiglet80
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56 months
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BruceV8 said: Isn't that one of the great things about PH? No matter how arcane the subject of discussion, somewhere on here is someone who works, lives or is an expert in that area! ETA in llewop's case, all three!  Never be wrong on PH!  Shame though I fancied a bit of a glow to my tan!
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hollydog
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61 months
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Jabbah
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hora
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80 months
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Robbie B said: Well this thread wasn't easy to find! I searched for exploring and abandoned and didn't find it so just had to trawl through my contributions. Here's 2 from last site, marginally pre-storm, of an abandoned construction site type thing.   Just going back through the topic and these photos are awesome
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DannyScene
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24 months
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Stiglet80 said: Never done much draining, mostly buildings and RAF bases for me. Never seen much on our local club about them either so I don't think there is. There is underground tunnels apparently. Existance debatable. I'm still pretty new but I did my first underground the other week and my god I want more haha  DSCN0070 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0076 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0090 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0213 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0093 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0118 by dannyscene, on Flickr This one might some explaining, the beck runs right to elft in this picture and splits off into parallell tunnels until the outfall, the mess in the middle is debris from the last time the water level reached the roof  DSCN0173 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0175 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0184 by dannyscene, on Flickr  DSCN0188 by dannyscene, on Flickr LLB in yo Drainz  MrAdaam I'll deffo be posting a thread about it if I can arrange something cos I am not going alone haha If anyone fancies going down the above culvert it's based in leeds and I'd be more than happy to accompany you
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superlightr
6,879 posts
132 months
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DannyScene said: I'm still pretty new but I did my first underground the other week and my god I want more haha DSCN0070 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0076 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0090 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0213 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0093 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0118 by dannyscene, on Flickr This one might some explaining, the beck runs right to elft in this picture and splits off into parallell tunnels until the outfall, the mess in the middle is debris from the last time the water level reached the roof DSCN0173 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0175 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0184 by dannyscene, on Flickr DSCN0188 by dannyscene, on Flickr LLB in yo Drainz MrAdaam I'll deffo be posting a thread about it if I can arrange something cos I am not going alone haha If anyone fancies going down the above culvert it's based in leeds and I'd be more than happy to accompany you good pics - strangly addictive exploring
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DannyScene
1,703 posts
24 months
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Jag-D said: Eastmoor, yes?
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rhinochopig
16,050 posts
67 months
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At the risk of sounding like a risk-averse old fart, you need to be very very careful exploring drains and sewers at the moment. Water levels can go from a trickle to feet deep in less than a minute. The rain-fall we are seeing is dumping inches on the hills which, because the ground is so hard still, runs straight off into the sewers and drainage and flash floods the system giving you virtually no warning. That debris ball in the pic above shows you how much volume you get through that system.
Leave the exploring for after several days of dry weather with no rain predicted.
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DannyScene
1,703 posts
24 months
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rhinochopig said: At the risk of sounding like a risk-averse old fart, you need to be very very careful exploring drains and sewers at the moment. Water levels can go from a trickle to feet deep in less than a minute. The rain-fall we are seeing is dumping inches on the hills which, because the ground is so hard still, runs straight off into the sewers and drainage and flash floods the system giving you virtually no warning. That debris ball in the pic above shows you how much volume you get through that system.
Leave the exploring for after several days of dry weather with no rain predicted. Yep totally agree, if you've never been in a drain before take heed of this advice!! This image shows just how much water levels can vary (This is in no way my picture, I claim no rights tot his picture)  bitflooded by dannyscene, on Flickr
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Robbie B
5,342 posts
52 months
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hora said: Robbie B said: Well this thread wasn't easy to find! I searched for exploring and abandoned and didn't find it so just had to trawl through my contributions. Here's 2 from last site, marginally pre-storm, of an abandoned construction site type thing. Just going back through the topic and these photos are awesome Haha cheers Hora, I absolutely hate them I thought HDR might look cool but now I think it looks ridiculous. Still, it was a cool place. Whilst I'm on here A) Stig, that place looks awesome! B) I did some research about places near me the other day and I stumbled across something interesting. There's a big forest near me that's on private land but not too difficult to get on (no houses/security or offices nearby). It's at the back of a disused war time runway and apparently inside this forest are still bomb shelters. I'm positively buzzing with excitement about trying to get in there. No one has got any pictures of inside yet. I just need the weather to buck up its ideas. I'll keep you chaps posted.
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pidsy
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26 months
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Good to see this thread back on its feet!
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DannyScene
1,703 posts
24 months
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pidsy said: Good to see this thread back on its feet! I was thinking that, theres been more activity in the past few days then I've seen in a few weeks. Is anyone doing a jubilee explore on our 2 free days off? Underground jubilee party sounds good to me weather permitting
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Stiglet80
4,628 posts
56 months
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Robbie B said: Whilst I'm on here A) Stig, that place looks awesome! B) I did some research about places near me the other day and I stumbled across something interesting. There's a big forest near me that's on private land but not too difficult to get on (no houses/security or offices nearby). It's at the back of a disused war time runway and apparently inside this forest are still bomb shelters. I'm positively buzzing with excitement about trying to get in there. No one has got any pictures of inside yet. I just need the weather to buck up its ideas. I'll keep you chaps posted. Cheers Rob! And get on it and post pics! Yes great to see it keep going! Get exploring 
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superlightr
6,879 posts
132 months
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anything down in Sussex going on? want some company and a torch?
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Stedman
4,850 posts
61 months
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superlightr said: anything down in Sussex going on? want some company and a torch? +1.
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