The primary pictures from the Maldives cave where six people have died have been released.
Five Italians on a research trip were killed during a dive into the 160 ft deep ‘shark cave’ within the Devana Kandu cave system last week.
Images published by Dan Europe reveal the underwater passages before natural light diminishes and the tunnels are plunged into darkness.
The bodies of ecology professor Monica Montefalcone, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, researcher Muriel Oddenino, and marine biologist Federico Gualtieri have all been recovered.
They were accompanied by diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti, whose body was found last week.
In total six people have been killed as a part of the cave dive, with Maldivian military rescue diver Mohamed Mahudhee dying from decompression illness on Saturday during a recovery mission.
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Sharing the photographs on Instagram, diving organisation Dan Europe said: ‘Natural light still filters through the doorway before the system descends into darkness.’
The professional-divers found the Italians in a corridor with a dead-end inside, Italy’s every day newspaper La Repubblica reported.
The corporate’s CEO said: ‘There was no way out from there,.’
Near the doorway to the cave there may be a really large and shiny cavern with a sandy bottom, with a corridor at the top.
The corridor has little light but ‘visibility, using artificial lighting, was excellent’, the CEO said.
It was 30 metres long , resulting in a second chamber which is large but has no natural light.
But there may be one other corridor within the chamber which might easily be confused for the one the divers entered through resulting from a sandbank which looks like a wall obstructing vision.
This corridor is simply just a few metres long, but was where the divers’ bodies were discovered.
Marroni said: ‘The divers’ bodies were all found inside, as in the event that they had mistaken it for the fitting one.’
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