Fünf Italiener sterben bei Höhlentauchen auf den Malediven
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e0p7rd2ro
Von Samski877
Fünf Italiener sterben bei Höhlentauchen auf den Malediven
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e0p7rd2ro
Von Samski877
23 Kommentare
Cave diving already sounds terrifying to most people and then you read they were exploring caves 50 metres underwater and realise how unbelievably dangerous this was even for experienced divers.
The ocean becomes completely unforgiving once something goes wrong at those depths. Really tragic story.
Very sad. Cave diving is dangerous, even in shallow depths, let alone 50m. That’s a highly technical dive, even with experience, which most of them seem to have had. I wonder what happened down there.
People who cave dive are people without fear.
Or sense in some cases
More content for ScaryInteresting on Youtube. I love their cave diving videos.
>Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said.
>“The divers are believed to have died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft),“ the ministry said, adding that this happened in Vaavu Atoll.
>Four of the divers were part of a University of Genoa team, including professor of ecology Monica Montefalcone, her daughter and two researchers.
>The Maldives‘ military said one body had been found in a cave about 60m underwater, and the other four divers were believed to be also there.
>It said divers with special equipment had been sent to the area, describing a search operation as a very high risk.
>Italy’s foreign ministry said on Friday that officials were working with the Maldivian authorities to search for the bodies.
Jesus what a nightmare.
What is notable here is that this group had experienced instructor with them, and they were all highly educated and intelligent people. Not just a group of young, hotheaded thrillseekers.
I would assume they had done every normal preparation and then some before doing this, and yet it ended up in a complete disaster anyway.
Cave Diving already is extremely dangerous. I don’t have much sympathy really… if you climb a mountain without ropes and fall to your death… it’s knowingly taking a huge risk
I was just watching a documentary about a South African cave dive where one of the three divers seemingly vanished while on a dive and, while search teams were deployed, they’d assumed he was dead as his body wasnt found.
Turned out, the guy had made it to some dry caves underwater and was trying to find a way back out. He died of starvation waiting for rescue. They found the body months later by chance.
This is an insane activity. It takes a second for everything to become catastrophic.
It will take some time to recover their bodies, once they’re found. In a cave and at that depth, recovering bodies becomes very dangerous for rescue divers.
I have no pity for people who put themselves in such a dangerous situation voluntarily. Nature is wild and unpredictable. Especially in a underwater cave!
:c
I don’t know much about cave diving but I know enough to stay away from it. How good can it be anyway? Seems like it’s a kind of moth to a flame thing for some people.
There was probably one person completely convinced this was fine and the rest just went by that… lessons to be learned beyond cave diving in the Maldives.
What kind of mother takes their kids to dangerous caves to scuba dive. I will never understand people doing stuff like this and caves/cliff stuff. Too many family members/friends/partners entice em to go these directions because they made it through themselves a couple times prob before meeting them.
Drowning is my worst fear. RIP to the victims
It baffles me that all five of them died. Sure, accidents happen, but every one of them in a group of professionals?
In the article there is speculation about the oxygen mix possibly being mixed wrongly, i am no expert in scuba diving, but could something like this lead to all of them getting poisoned during the dive?
I’m not trying to start a race war in the comments… but this peak white people stuff.
I can’t fathom why anyone would voluntarily do this as a hobby, it’s pretty selfish because when they get stuck either their families have to live on, or they have to be rescued, putting other lives
In danger
Don’t cave dive with sketchy outfits that let you skip getting certified
Darwin strikes once again. Im honestly finding it hard to feel sad that people doing something so incredibly dangerous for fun get killed.
do **not** go in The Hole
All optional btw
At 50 meters you are using 6x more air than you do at the surface. Your bottom time is measured in minutes, mistakes or disorentation in a cave is a death sentence.
Exploring crammed caves not enough?
Fuck it, do it underwater!
What could go wrong?