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

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…

Several fatalities have been reported in recent years but diving and water sports-related accidents are still relatively rare.

An international dive safety group sent experts to the Maldives on Sunday to join a multinational recovery effort after five Italians and a rescue diver died in the Indian Ocean…

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.

COLOMBO: Three Finnish cave divers are joining efforts in the Maldives on Monday to try to find and recover the bodies of four Italian scuba divers who died in an accident in…

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

Rescuers have located the bodies of four divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave in a Maldive atoll. The body of a fifth diver was recovered last week.

Five Italian divers are believed to have died while exploring a cave at a depth of about 50 metres in Vaavu Atoll on Thursday, according to Italy’s Foreign Ministry. #EuropeNews

The bodies of four Italian scuba divers, missing since last week, have been located in an underwater cave in the Maldives.

Bodies of all five missing divers now recovered after local diver also died during rescue mission

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

Five Italians and a rescuer have died in the Maldives as officials launch a probe into the tragedy - two questions remain unanswered as the investigation gets underway

Three Finnish divers will attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives.

Maldives government spokesman Ahmed Shaam had earlier said that the three Finnish divers would retrieve the bodies, which were lying at a depth of around 60 metres. #EuropeNews

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.

The bodies were found at a depth that was twice the legal depth for recreational diving in the island nation. Two bodies have yet to be recovered.

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.

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