Who dives for the divers? 😶

Spelunkers of all sorts have chosen their graves. They should leave them there like they do MtEverest climbers.

"I'm willing to keep killing people until we retrieve all the corpses!"

Rich ass-corpses are worth more than poor-ass people

Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said the Italian government “will do everything possible to recover the bodies of our compatriots”.

Diving at 50 metres exceeds the maximum depth recommended for recreational divers by most scuba certifying agencies. Depths beyond 40 metres are considered technical diving, which requires specialised training and equipment. The recreational diving limit in the Maldives is 30 metres (98ft), and experts have warned that cave divers could easily become disoriented or lost, particularly when sediment clouds reduce visibility.

The Italians were passengers onboard a 36-metre luxury yacht the Duke of York, whose operating licence was suspended “indefinitely” on Saturday by the Maldivian ministry of tourism and civil aviation, pending the outcome of an investigation. A website link related to the ship was not working on Saturday and the owner of the yacht did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the Guardian.

Shareef said investigators were looking into why the group went below the officially permitted depth of 30 metres.

Bodies aren’t worth risking lives 🤪 Antonio is such a tool!

For everyone shitting on the retrieval: retrieving the bodies is how we identify the cause of death, helping prevent this happening to other people.

Why did she die from DCS?? Just go up slowly

There's nothing that scares me more than drowning in an enclosed space. Just terrifying.
Also I wouldn't waste any more lives trying to recover their bodies.

I'm a diver but not that qualified, and far from an expert, but the fact that five (supposedly experienced) divers died, and now even a rescue diver has died, tells me this is in big part to do with the location itself rather than failure in the divers part.

I don't remember the names, but some caves have water currents pulling in, and others pushing out. Out are the safest ones because it's easier to get out. In are the most dangerous, because you might be going further than you realize and to come back you have to swim against the current - you won't have enough air to make it back. That said, usually even experienced cave divers stay far from those caves, precisely because they know how dangerous they are. Also, if you are diving in a foreign place, you should really go with a dive guide who knows the area. AFAIK, there was no guide.

So even then, there was probably some type of mess up on the driver's side. Because it seems they should not have been performing that dive, much less with no dive guide.

And statistically, the majority of victims of cave diving deaths were people who are not certified cave divers.

I'm saying all this because I've seen so many people talk about how dangerous it is, but statistically if you are qualified it's safer than free diving. But no one complaints about that being dangerous.

EDIT: I should also mention I could not read the article, I got paywalled. I'm having to go just by the title.

Damn. Didn't even die trying to save a life but to recover their bodies.

Condolences. :(

And please, people, this is what drones are for.

Bravery is commendable, but darkness, floating sediment, high pressure (immediate ascent not possible - this got Mohamed Mahudhee) and working under a time limit imposed by oxygen reserves in an environment where one can get lost: these are not conditions suitable for a human being.

Please send a machine, it has no life, has a sonar, the operator on a ship won't panic, if fiber stops working, acoustic communication is still possible, a drone can work for days without running out of anything, etc.

Getting anxious just thinking about it.

I was just freaking out from reading into the Nutty Putty Cave situation from many years back, how awful!

The article made it sound like they were using recreational diving rules. That doesn't make much sense. How exactly did they plan to decompress? I think it could have been more thorough. I think they were mixing various diving concepts.

Also, plus 1 on the idea of using drones.

It sounds like diving at that depth is already very dangerous, and that's before you add going into a cave into the mix.

It will be very interesting to read any incident report that comes out.

What's that, six dead now? What absolute clusterfuck.

This is so sad. Rest in peace, all of you.

I think it's the way you are presenting your argument. Instead of using the word dangerous, which it always is, you might mean deadly. It sounds kind of like you don't know what you are talking about.

1. Sixty meters is off of the sport diving charts. They don't even go that deep. I'm not a PADI diver, I'm a NAUI diver so the charts are more restrictive, but to go to maximum depth in our charts (going by memory here) is something like 5 minutes bottom time with NO caves involved. So to go to that depth with one tank would be useless because you can't stay long enough to really do anything. I don't even know how anyone could dive without planning decompression stops. If they were using a mixture then they would have training on how to do that.

2. If that cave wasn't so dangerous, why did a trained rescue diver die trying to get them out? Was the rescue diver also being careless?

3. Pretty much ALL cave diving accidents are human error. I mean I guess there could be equipment malfunction, but there are contingencies for that. Failure to plan for that would also be human error.

So these dipshits go to far and get themselves killed, so smart people, who know better than to get themselves in that situation, now are FORCED to get into that situation by the dipshits?

Fuck that. Leave the bodies there as a warning to the next dipshits who are determined to challenge their Darwinian Imperative. When they reach that point, they will be confronted by a significant indicator of their stupidity.