A team of divers from Finland using extra-specialized equipment on Wednesday retrieved the last two bodies remaining out of five Italian divers who had drowned after recklessly swimming more than 160 ft underwater to a cave off the small Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, the AP reports on the end of the grim and dangerous mission that already took the life of a Maldivian military diver.
The Finnish team, equipped with closed-circuit rebreathers that recycle exhaled breathing gas and removes carbon dioxide through a chemical scrubber, actually dove to an estimated depth of 200 ft to reach the innermost part of the cave system where the bodies of Muriel Oddenino and Giorgia Sommacal were located. The remains of Monica Montefalcone and Federico Gualtieri had been retrieved from the same spot on Tuesday while instructor Gianluca Benedetti was found on Thursday, shortly after the unauthorized excursion that got another guy killed for no good reason.