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 ...

A GRIEVING widower has recalled his wife’s tragic death in the Maldives – decades before five Italian divers died last week in chillingly similar circumstances. Giorgio Bettin told how ...

THE tragic Maldives divers were just 15 minutes from the surface when they died as a result of “human error”, a final report has revealed. The five Italians were also diving with ...

A ‘COMPLE’X mission to recover the bodies of four Italian tourists who died during a cave dive in the Maldives last week has begun. An expert team of Finnish divers discovered the ...

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 ...

One body has been recovered during search operations since the tragic incident on Thursday, May 14 ...

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 ...

HAUNTING pictures of the Maldives “shark cave” where five Italians and one rescuer died have been shared by the elite recovery unit – as tragic bodycam footage is probed. The ...

Searches had resumed on Monday after being suspended following the death of a local military diver during a perilous mission to try to reach them.

It all started in October 2004, when Shaw, a pilot and celebrated cave diver, set a world record for the deepest dive using a rebreather at Bushman's Hole in South Africa.

The tragedy began on Thursday when five Italian divers disappeared while attempting to explore caves at a depth of around 50 ...