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Dark and with currents, this is what the cave in the Maldives looks like where 5 Italian tourists lost their lives (VIDEO)

2026-05-19 11:05:32Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Dark and with currents, this is what the cave in the Maldives looks like where 5

To understand the difficulty of searching for and recovering the bodies of the four missing Italians in the Maldives, you have to 'go' inside the Devana Kandu cave.

This video, taken on February 14, 2014 by Sergey Lapkin and Vladimir Tochilov together with a group of divers, shows passages in coral reefs, rocky and coral ceilings, corridors where you can't climb vertically, sediments that can completely eliminate visibility, and channel currents that can change in a matter of minutes.

Here, every inch must be planned: gas, time, guide lines, exit routes, backup equipment. It is in this scenario that Finnish specialists Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist work, called in by DAN Europe to attempt the recovery and return to the families of the bodies of the victims of the tragedy in the Maldives.

They are an international task force of technical divers and cavers, experts in confined spaces and high-risk missions. They belong to that small circle of professionals who are called in when the sea, rocks and darkness turn a search into a race against time, as happened in 2018 in the flooded Tham Luang cave in Thailand.

On Monday, they located the four remaining bodies inside the cave's third and final chamber, “practically next to each other.” The plan is to extract two of the bodies on Tuesday and the other two on Wednesday.

According to experts, the deeper you dive, the more the pressure increases, meaning that each breath brings more oxygen into your lungs and bloodstream, even if you're breathing normal air. If this exposure is too high or lasts too long, the oxygen begins to overstimulate the central nervous system and damage tissues.

Theoretically, oxygen toxicity begins to appear with compressed air at about 55 meters depth.

Experts say that for recreational diving up to 30 meters, which according to the operator of the boat from which the dive was made, permission was available, normal compressed air with 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen is used, but for deeper dives the oxygen content should be above 32%. For depths reaching at least 50 meters, divers are recommended to use at least two cylinders each with a specialized air mixture.

The group that entered the cave on Thursday was led by Monica Montefalcone, 51, a professor at the University of Genoa and a marine ecologist who was a regular diver in the Maldivian waters of the Indian Ocean. Her 22-year-old daughter was among the four researchers who lost their lives, along with an instructor.

The instructor's body, which was found at the entrance to the cave, is the only one recovered so far, from a depth of 60 meters.

Montefalcone's husband, Carlo Sommacal, told Italian media that his wife would never have put her daughter or anyone else at risk. He described her as "one of the best divers in the world," who had completed about 5,000 dives and who was "always careful" and "never reckless."


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