Bodies of Last 2 Missing Italian Divers Recovered in the Maldives
The New York Times • • world
Key Points:
- The bodies of the final two missing Italian scuba divers who died exploring underwater caves in the Maldives have been recovered, completing the recovery of all five divers who died last week.
- A sixth diver, a member of the Maldivian military, also died during the recovery operation, marking one of the worst diving disasters in the Maldives' recent history.
- The recovery was complicated by the extreme depth and complex, narrowing cave system, making extraction of victims particularly challenging.
- Expert divers from the Divers Alert Network (DAN) have been involved in the operation since Monday and planned to return to collect the victims' equipment, including dive computers and cameras.
- The dive computers and cameras are considered crucial for investigators to piece together the circumstances of the tragedy, which remain unclear.