'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…

Expert divers have been sent to the Maldives to retrieve four bodies in a deep-sea cave network, in a search mission that's already killed one military rescue diver.

The attempt to retrieve the five bodies has already claimed another life, underscoring the peril and complexity of the recovery effort.

An Aussie dive instructor has weighed in on the mysterious deaths of five Italian scuba divers in the Maldives after one enthusiast sensationally claimed the group were “dead the…

The diving instructor of the Italians who died in sea caves in the Maldives was discovered in a separate location to the four others who perished underwater.

Search operations resumed on Monday after being suspended following the death of a local military diver. | World News

Five divers died and another military specialist on a rescue mission perished trying to locate the missing group down the murky Thinwana Kandu 'shark cave' in the Maldives

'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…

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The bodies of two more doomed Italian divers have been recovered from a cave in the Maldives as the dangerous mission to retrieve the remaining pair continues.

Italian prosecutors have launched a culpable homicide investigation into the fatal Maldives cave-diving expedition, authorities said.

A Maldives government official says a permit was given to study soft corals, but authorities were unaware the group planned to cave dive.

A group of five Italian scuba divers died while exploring a deep underwater cave near Vaavu Atoll. No one knows what happened.

Footage taken on body cameras worn by a group of Italian divers who died while exploring deep-sea caves in the Maldives could reveal how their final moments unfolded.

Maldivian authorities say they are probing whether the group descended far deeper than expected

A diving expert has suggested that five Italian cave divers were sucked into a spawling network of caves beneath a Maldives atoll due to the unique properties of its entrance

A group of expert Finnish divers may have solved the mystery surrounding the deaths of five Italians who perished while exploring deep-sea caves in the Maldives.

Finnish divers found the Italians in a corridor with a dead end inside the cave complex, Italy's la Repubblica daily reported.

The divers went missing while "attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres," the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously said. #EuropeNews