Overview
- Finnish technical cave divers using closed-circuit rebreathers recovered two bodies Tuesday from the cave’s third chamber and police transferred them to Malé.
- Authorities plan to retrieve the remaining two bodies Wednesday after locating all four at about 60 meters, well beyond the nation’s 30‑meter recreational limit.
- Search efforts had paused after Maldivian sergeant major Mohamed Mahudhee died Saturday of suspected decompression sickness during a recovery dive.
- The government opened an investigation into permits, depth authorizations and dive plans and suspended the operating license of the group’s vessel.
- Officials identified the dead as professor Monica Montefalcone, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, researchers Federico Gualtieri and Muriel Oddenino, and instructor Gianluca Benedetti.