The husband of a woman who died scuba diving over 40 years ago at the same Maldives spot that claimed the lives of five Italian tourists said his wife was only supposed to go to 65 feet, but a guide took her more than 175 feet underwater.
Giorgio Bettin’s wife Anna Maria Pistolato, an underwater photographer, dived the same Vaavu Atoll as the group, when the couple were newlyweds on vacation in the Maldives on Jan. 11, 1983.
“It was supposed to be a short dive, but I never saw my wife alive again,” Bettin told Italy’s Il Gazzettino, as a criminal investigators in Rome probe who made the decision for a group to explore a cave 160 feet underwater May 14 without the required training, permit or equipment.
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