Finnish specialist divers in the Maldives recovered the bodies of two Italian scuba divers, a man and a woman, in a two-hour operation in a cave system dubbed by locals as "shark cave" at a depth of 200 feet. Photo courtesy Maldives President's Media Division/EPA
May 19 (UPI) -- A specialist international dive rescue team recovered the remains of two of four Italians on Tuesday, five days after they were killed scuba diving in undersea caves in the Maldives.
The three Finnish divers brought up the bodies of a man and a woman in a two-hour operation in a cave system dubbed by locals as "shark cave" at a depth of more than 200 feet, said Maldivian government spokesman Mohamed Hossain Shareef.
The divers brought the bodies to a depth of 100 feet at which point they handed them off to divers from the Maldivian Coast Guard who brought them to the surface and onto a sea ambulance.
The bodies have since been transferred from Vaavu Atoll to the capital Male for formal identification.
