Bodies of four remaining Italian scuba divers repatriated from the Maldives

The bodies of the four remaining Italian scuba divers who drowned in an underwater cave in the Maldives have been repatriated.

Monica Montefalcone, a marine biologist from the University of Genoa; her daughter Giorgia Sommacal; researcher Muriel Oddenino; and recent graduate Federico Gualtieri were brought home to Italy early Saturday.

Montefalcone and Gualtieri’s bodies were recovered Tuesday by an elite squad of Finnish divers, and Sommacal’s and Oddenino’s were pulled out of the water Wednesday.

They were all found in the cave’s third and deepest chamber with empty oxygen tanks.

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The fifth diver, diving instructor and boat captain Gianluca Benedetti, was found May 14, the evening of the tragedy, away from the