The search for the bodies of four of the five Italians who died while scuba-diving in the Maldives on Thursday failed to locate the corpses on Friday and will resume on Saturday, the Italian Ambassador to Sir Lanka Damiano Francovigh told SkyTg24.
The Maldivian National Defence Force (MNDF) said it was searching for the bodies of four of the victims in a cave at a depth of around 60 metres where the corpse of one was recovered on Thursday.
"The Maldivian Coast Guard conducted a dive, and entered this cave, which they tell me is 62 meters deep," said Francovigh, who also has responsibility for the Maldives and has flown to its capital Malé.
"It's a particularly complex dive because the cave is divided into three separate, interconnected segments.
"On this occasion, the Maldivian divers were only able to enter the first two, then had to come up to allow time for decompression, and have not yet been able to spot the bodies of the other Italian divers.
