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The remaining four bodies of divers who went missing after a scuba cave-diving accident in the Maldives have been found, authorities have confirmed. Five divers went missing in the incident on ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Bodies of Last 2 Italian Tourists Recovered from Dive Cave in the Maldives
Five Italians went missing during a diving incident in an underwater cave in the Maldives on Thursday, May 14 ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Diver reveals dangers of Maldives shark cave where 6 people lost their lives
Five Italian divers died on a research trip in the Maldives last week, after they entered a 160 ft deep ‘shark cave’ in a submerged cave system in the Vaavu Atoll. The bodies of ecology professor ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Military diver dies while searching for bodies of missing people who died in Maldives caves, raising death toll to 6
The Maldives National Defence Force confirmed the death of a staff sergeant who had fallen ill during the rescue mission ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Underwater tragedy in Maldives leaves families searching for answers after cave deaths
The husband of Monica Montefalcone, Carlo Sommacal, is demanding answers after a fatal diving trip in Maldives took the lives of his wife and daughter.
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: The Maldives cave diving tragedy
The ocean is often described as Earth’s last great frontier, a vast and mysterious world that continues to challenge even the most experienced explorers. In May 2026, a routine scientific expedition ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Italian researcher’s fatal Maldives scuba gear mystery deepens on funeral day
One of the five divers who drowned in an underwater cave in the Maldives, published multiple studies on dives at depths of 260 feet – deepening the mystery on her funeral day about why she and her ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Mystery of Maldives diving tragedy that killed six people as experts try to figure out what actually happened
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 ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Funeral held for mother and daughter Maldives cave divers as heartbroken dad leads tributes in front of 2,000 mourners
THOUSANDS of mourners have attended the funeral of two Italian tourists who died during a cave dive in the Maldives. Monica Montefalcone, 51, and her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, 22, were among five ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Italian Divers Who Died in Maldives Didn't Have Proper Scuba Gear and Were Just Minutes Away from Reaching Surface As Shocking New Details Emerge
The group disappeared on May 14 while taking part in a deep-water dive inside an underwater cave nearly 164 feet below the surface in the Maldives' Vaavu Atoll.
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Last words of Italian scuba diver hours before she died in Maldives underwater cave tragedy
Monica Montefalcone, an associate professor of ecology at the University of Genoa, was among five people who died in a diving accident in the Maldives earlier this week ...
News Maldives » Vaavu » People: Military Diver Dies While Searching for Bodies of Missing People Who Died in Maldives Caves, Raising Death Toll to 6
The death toll of the scuba diving tragedy in the Maldives has risen to six. Five Italian divers died “while attempting to explore caves at a depth” of 164 feet in Vaavu Atoll, about 40 miles from the ...