Authorities plan to recover the bodies of four missing Italian scuba divers from a Vaavu Atoll underwater cave system over two days, with two bodies set for retrieval on Tuesday and two on Wednesday. The divers went missing during an expedition last week, one Italian diver was previously recovered and repatriated, and a Maldivian military diver died during the recovery mission.
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Italian diver Gianluca Benedetti was previously recovered near the cave entrance and repatriated to Italy Monday night aboard Turkish Airlines flight TK735.
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The bodies were located inside the third segment of the cave following an orientation dive conducted by foreign cave recovery experts assisting Maldivian authorities in the high-risk mission.
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The divers went missing during a cave diving expedition in Vaavu Atoll last week.
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The multinational recovery effort intensified after elite Finnish cave divers Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund, and Patrik Grönqvist arrived in the Maldives to support local teams navigating the cave system.
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