'I have visited those caves countless times. There is no current. They swam into that third cave. They chose to go in there,' a former military diver for the Maldives National Defence Force tells the Daily Mail.

The group of five Italian divers is believed to have died while exploring a cave at a depth of about 50 meters (160 feet) in Vaavu Atoll on Thursday.

International cave divers have arrived in the Maldives to step up the search for the remains of four Italians who died while scuba diving in the island paradise, a day after a…