Video shows deadly Maldives cave where five Italian divers perished

In the crystalline waters off Vaavu Atoll, the Maldives witnessed its deadliest diving tragedy on May 14, when five Italian explorers — among them a professor, a researcher, an instructor, and a biologist — descended into an underwater cave system and did not return. The cave, reaching 70 meters in depth and 200 meters in passage, had long been known to technical diving experts as a place demanding extraordinary preparation; one instructor had even obscured its true name to discourage the unprepared. Six lives in total were lost, including a military sergeant who died in the rescue effort, lea