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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The bodies of the last two of five Italian divers who perished while diving in a deep underwater cave in the Maldives have been recovered.

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.

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

Italian divers who died in the Maldives may have taken the wrong tunnel in a cave and died in a dead-end corridor, the head of the company that recovered their bodies told AFP…

Recovery team says five Italian divers may have mistaken a dead-end tunnel for the exit after a sandbank hid the correct corridor; GoPro cameras recovered from the cave may help…