The University of Genoa said the victims included a marine biology professor, her daughter and two young researchers.

Finnish rescue divers have shared a new theory that may explain how the five Italian divers lost their lives during a deep-water expedition in the Maldives last week. The accident, believed to be the ...

Finnish divers found the Italians in a corridor with a dead end inside the cave complex, Italy's la Repubblica daily reported ...

Italy says the incident happened at a depth of 50m. Maldivian rescuers have so far found one body.

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 ...

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 ...

Five Italian divers who drowned inside a notorious underwater cave in the Maldives were not equipped with proper cave-diving gear — and were believed to be just 15 minutes away from reaching the ...

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 ...

The group had been diving in ⁠caves in the Vaavu Atoll at a depth ⁠of around 50m (165ft). They were reported missing by the crew of a vessel they were travelling on when they failed to resurface.

Search operations resumed on Monday after being suspended following the death of a local military diver.

Maldives scuba diving accident: The ⁠body of ‌one of the Italian ​divers ​was recovered on Friday, the Maldives National ⁠Defence Force (MNDF) said.