Five experienced Italian divers who vanished inside an underwater cave system in the Maldives may have become trapped after taking a wrong turn deep below the surface, investigators now believe.
The group disappeared during a dive near Alimathaa Island in Vaavu Atoll on 14 May, in what has since become the deadliest diving tragedy in Maldivian history. Recovery teams later found the divers inside the cave's deepest chamber alongside recovered GoPro cameras that could now reveal their final moments, including how panic, poor visibility and rapidly falling oxygen levels may have turned the exploration fatal.
