Military rescuer dies from decompression during Maldives cave dive recovery

Six deaths total: five Italian tourists (Monica Montefalcone, Giorgia Sommacal, Muriel Oddenino, Federico Gualtieri, Gianluca Benedetti) and one Maldivian military rescue diver (Mohamed Mahudhee).

In the waters of Vaavu Atoll, a single act of duty became a second tragedy layered upon the first. Five Italian researchers and divers — members of a University of Genoa expedition — descended into underwater caves beyond the limits of safe practice and did not return; days later, a Maldivian military diver named Mohamed Mahudhee entered those same depths to bring them home, and the sea claimed him too. Six lives now mark the cost of one Thursday morning's dive, and the investigation that follows must reckon not only with what went wrong, but with the quiet courage of those who go in after the

Military rescuer dies from decompression during Maldives cave dive recovery

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