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The group vanished while exploring the notorious Dhekunu Kandu cave system in the Vaavu Atoll earlier this month.

"It was supposed to be a short dive, but I never saw my wife alive again," Giorgio Bettin told Italy's Il Gazzettino.

The five Italian divers who drowned in the Maldives were not wearing proper scuba equipment for the journey - and were just 15 minutes from the surface when they died.

Monica Montefalcone, a marine biologist from the University of Genoa; her daughter Giorgia Sommacal; researcher Muriel Oddenino; and recent graduate Federico Gualtieri were repatriated early Saturd ...

The remains of four Italian divers who died deep inside an underwater cave have been repatriated. One other set of remains was returned earlier this month.

Experts warn about the risks of cave diving without proper training, planning and specialised equipment after deaths in Vaavu atoll ...

Footage from 2014 shows the inside of the underwater Maldives cave where five divers died on May 14th. The bodies of Monica Montefalcone, 52, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, 20, Muriel Oddenino, 31,

Five Italians on a research trip were killed during a dive into the 160 ft deep 'shark cave' in the Devana Kandu cave system last week.

Five Italians on a research trip were killed during a dive into the 160 ft deep 'shark cave' in the Devana Kandu cave system last week.