Drone over Chernobyl

[FLPanhandle]

Haunting video footage of the area 28 years after the meltdown.

http://vimeo.com/112681885

[JaneyVee]

1. Whoa that really was a haunting trip.

[FLPanhandle]

2. A glimpse of what things would look like if humans died off

Amazing how fast a city can deteriorate

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Incredible footage!

Footage of Pripyat takes my breath away, always.

[bananas]

4. He visited Chernobyl while working on a CBS 60 Minutes episode

From the vimeo page:

vimeo .com/112681885

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl
from Danny Cooke 3 days ago

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit Chernobyl whilst working for CBS News on a '60 Minutes' episode http://cbsnews.com/news/chernobyl-the-catastrophe-that-never-ended/

----> ***Soundtrack 'Promise land' by Hannah Miller - licensed on themusicbed.com

Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I've been. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 (the year after I was born), had and effect on so many people, including my family when we lived in Italy. I can't imagine how terrifying it would have been for the hundreds of thousands of locals who evacuated.

During my stay, I met so many amazing people, one of which was my guide Yevgein, also known as a 'Stalker'. We spent the week together exploring Chernobyl and the nearby abandoned city of Prypiat. There was something serene, yet highly disturbing about this place. Time has stood still and there are memories of past happenings floating around us.

Armed with a camera and a dosimeter geiger counter I explored...

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Shot using DJI Phantom 2 (GoPro3+) and Canon 7D

[Igel]

5. A Tvarkovsky reference.

You don't get those often on DU. (Tvarkovsky made a movie "Stalker" based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers.)

[teamster633]

6. There is a great series of PC games based on the book(s) as well.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, Robbers

Shadow of Chernobyl
Clear Sky
Call of Pripyat

[panader0]

7. It looks like the radiation didn't harm the trees.

Weird

[Brother Buzz]

8. Trees did die in the 'Red Forest', an extremly hot area close to the reactor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Forest

Interesting to note, wildlife appears to be thriving in the exclusion zone, unmolested by man. Birds, rodents, elk, lynxes, wolves, wild boar, and deer populations are growing, and as yet, no mutations have been observed despite still having high radiation levels in their bodies.

[cristyloe]

9. Drone over Chernobyl

Really amazing to me how fast a city can deteriorate

[etherealtruth]

10. Wow ... thank you! n/t