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

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.

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

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

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…

The four missing Italians were found in the deepest part of the sea cave, and rescuers plan to recover their bodies in the coming days.

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.

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

Prosecutors in Rome opened a culpable homicide probe as Maldives officials said they were unaware the group planned to enter a cave

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.

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