In the HBO series "Chernobyl", the three "divers" (Olexi Ananenko, Valery Vespalov and Boris Baranov) were presented as volunteers to create a dramatic scene.
In reality, they weren't. They were employees acting on orders.
They survived after treatment in the hospital. Baranov died in 2005 from heart failure, the other two men still live.
Ananenko's apartment in Kiev was destroyed by a Russian bomb on Friday night but he's reportedly OK.













