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Inside the deadly search to recover four divers' bodies from a deep-sea Maldives cave
Key takeaways
- Monica Montefalcone is one of five Italian divers who died in the Maldives while exploring an underwater cave.
- And in a perilous mission to try to recover their bodies, a military rescue diver also died on the weekend.
- Now, expert deep-sea divers from Finland have arrived in the archipelago to map out a new plan to retrieve the four divers.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Monica Montefalcone is one of five Italian divers who died in the Maldives while exploring an underwater cave. (Greenpeace via AP)
Link copied Share Share article Five experienced Italian divers died in the Maldives last week, with four of them believed to still be deep inside an underwater cave.
And in a perilous mission to try to recover their bodies, a military rescue diver also died on the weekend.
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