Last two bodies of Italian divers killed in scuba diving accident recovered, Maldives says
Authorities say the recovery closes a search that began after five Italian divers died in a cave dive and a rescuer also died.
- On Wednesday, Maldivian authorities recovered the final two bodies of Italian scuba divers, completing recovery operations near Vaavu Atoll after a week-long search for the group of five.
- The five Italian divers entered a deepwater cave system last week, descending to 60 meters—significantly exceeding the 30 meters permitted for standard recreational diving in the Maldives.
- Three Finnish diving experts assisted local police and military personnel in locating the bodies, while Maldives National Defence Force diver Staff Sergeant Mohamed Mahudhy died from decompression illness during the search.
- University of Genoa claimed the dive "was not part of the activities envisaged by the scientific mission, but was carried out in a personal capacity," while authorities continue investigating to "find the facts of what happened.
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How could the excursion of five experienced divers on the Maldives go so wrong? There is still no official cause for the fatal dive of the five Italians. Finnish experts, however, now suspect that they took a wrong way out of the underwater cave.
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lejsl.comAll the bodies of the Italian divers who died in Maldives were recovered by a Finnish team, who gave the details of the operation and the various assumptions about their death.
All the bodies of the five Italian divers who lost their lives on May 14 in a fatal diving expedition in Maldives were already located.European tourists died trying to explore underwater caves in the Vaau atoll, which had a depth of at least 50 meters.The first one to be found, during the early part of the search process, was the diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti.Recovery of the remaining four diversDuring the high-risk operation to locate th…
All the bodies have been recovered. The five Italian divers who died in the Maldives during a dive in the caves of Alimathà, 50 meters deep, will soon return to Italy, probably by the weekend. Professor Monica Montefalcone, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, the biologist Federico Gualtieri and researcher Muriel Oddenino will reach the instructor Gianluca Benedetti, whose body has already arrived on May 19: he was the first to be recovered finding h…
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