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

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

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 ...

The murky “shark cave” where five Italian divers were tragically killed in the Maldives has been seen in haunting new footage – as fresh theories behind their deaths emerge.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Images from a cave where the four Italians were found reveal the difficulty that rescuers had in recovering their bodies.

Five Italian tourists and a Maldivian rescue diver die in a deep cave dive near Vaavu Atoll in the Maldives. Investigators are hinting at one probable cause and many factors that may have led to it ...

Five Italians died in the Maldives during a scuba diving accident in a deep underwater cave. Authorities conducted a high-risk search on Friday for the bodies of four divers, while the fifth diver’s ...

Five Italian tourists were thought to be minutes from the surface of a Maldives cave dive when they vanished and were later found dead following a major rescue mission ...