Expert Explains Deadly Risks After Maldives Cave Diving Tragedy

The girl who backed out of the challenge just before the dive is the only one who made the right decision.

The biggest issue here was none of these people were certified cave divers. There is a big difference between being a professional diver that swims in the open ocean vs being a certified cave diver. Cave divers have a special set of skills and use different equipment and gases to maneuver through difficult environments/depths. None of those people who lost their lives in that cave were certified in cave diving. They were using the wrong equipment/gases and dove with a single tank which is basically a suicide mission because of the depths they were at with no proper life saving back up system to keep them alive in the event that something went wrong.

I do think they planned it. They thought they were invincible, wouldn't happen to them, they are experts, but it doesn't matter if you're are being careless. Caves are dangerous & they demmand/command respect & responsibilty. If they were/are so professional, then why did they make so many mistakes!! If Monica made 5000 dives, then she would have surely known that it was a tech dive at that depth & that it requires more than a single tank. I believe this has been in the making for months, prior than even arriving, hence why they seperated themselves from the rest of the divers Why. The 6th person who didn't go in on the day...now that person will be a wealth of information.

I don't understand how people are doing this and haven't researched anything and think because they have used diving equipment they can do whatever they want!? God help the families 🙏❤️ Don't think you are invincible just because you have done a little bit

I need an “expert’ to tell me something is dangerous? I already know and Im not a so called expert. Avoiding rattlesnakes is a danger too

If you aksed the divers who recovered the bodies if they would have joined the Italians for their dive, I'm convinced their answer would be NO. This underlines that the victims did not know what they were doing.

I am a TDI Divemaster and TDI Extended Range technical diver. Diving to 50–60 m on air with a single 12 L tank is already extremely reckless even in open water, let alone inside a cave. At 55 m, a diver using a single 12 L tank would have a maximum bottom time of only around eight minutes if they still wanted to reach the surface safely. Even then, they would still face a minimum of 35–40 minutes of decompression obligations during ascent, and whether their gas supply would even last that long would depend on everything going perfectly, with absolutely no margin for error. With that kind of decompression obligation, every additional minute spent at depth would drastically increase their risk of severe decompression sickness, as they simply would not have had enough gas in a single cylinder to complete the required decompression procedures safely. On top of an already extremely badly planned dive — which already violated fundamental diving rules and procedures by attempting such a depth with only a single tank of air — they then decided to penetrate an unknown cave without a properly placed guideline for safe entry and exit. In a cave environment, a single wrong fin kick can stir up bottom silt and reduce visibility to near zero within seconds. At that point, without a guideline, finding the exit again can become nearly impossible even for highly trained cave divers. That decision sealed their fate. It’s was pure suicide.

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The difference between scuba diving and cave diving is scuba diving if something goes wrong, your exit is straight up. You can use a buddies air to help you get back up. Meanwhile, cave diving if something goes wrong and way out is going back the way you came, and you cannot use your friends air to help you for various reasons, one of which is the hole is only wide enough for one of you. Cave divers know they are on their own and their friends are just there for moral support but it is all on you whether you live or die. Oh and btw if you die, your friends know they have to leave you there otherwise they will die too. Can you imagine that. Can you imagine seeing your best friend dying in front of you and you leaving them behind cause you know if you exert any extra air trying to save them you die too. That's the environment. It's a whole different world then what you're used to. Those guys form a pact. They agree beforehand that if something happens and they are dying it's on them and understand the others have to leave him. It's a pact you sign when you become a cave diver.

I am utterly exhausted hearing about a “Cave Diving Accident” This was suicide by stupidity. 1) They broke the local law. 100ft max depth is shallow for some deep for others. Where they entered the cave at 170-180ft egregious NEVER should have been there. Just to be at this depth for tens seconds is a serious dive not to take casually. This alone could have killed them but many are successfully stupid and complete a risky dive. 2) was this just another dive with egregious violations on depth? Habitually breaking the 100ft/No Deco local law limit? 3) having arrived at a perilous 180ft they then decide to stack risk factors on top on the depth by entering an overhead environment. 4) Not only did they enter an overhead environment they decide to stack additional risk on top by going beyond light caving called cavern diving where ambient light from the surface is still visible inside the cave, to FULL CAVE NO LIGHT AVAILABLE UNLESS FROM ONE OF YOUR FLASHLIGHTS. You need THREE light sources at all times. 5) did they have 3 flashlights each? 6) did they each have a cave line/reel? Did The lead Diver USE thier cave reel as required? 7) were they diving something other than air? If not most of them were NARCed possibly to the point they were even goofy. Look up Nitrogen Narcosis there are some funny videos of people being goofy because they are narced. It’s a little like being drunk. Can be VERY DANGEROUS. At the depth these morons were at they were drunk as fuck unless they have a lot of tolerance built up and experiencing not just dealing with it but even being able to recognize that you are narc and need to focus hard on whatever task is at hand. 7) what breathing setup did they use. If the dive plan was to dive a single tank, any mix appropriate for the depth, with the depth and overhead conditions this is always a very risky dive. This is a risky dive perfectly planned. 8) the number one way i know these people committed diving suicide they entered an overhead environment with a fucking gaggle of divers. The only way i would enter a cave as more than a group of two would require two conditions. 1) There would have to be a need than cannot be achieved any other way and the task is of such critical nature it is worth risking my life to do so. 2) I would have to have know each member an have completed cave dives without issue or negligence with them before as a buddy pair. This group of divers did not have an accident. They committed a series of not just mistakes, but blunders, they committed a never event. This was suicide by stupidity. The ultimate FAFO

Why should foreigners come to Maldives and attempt such deep diving without proper prep or correct equipment

Imagine just before dying being the mother and realizing you put your daughter in that situation .. 🙏 heartbreaking

Sadly, All those divers who died were not qualified for Cave Diving, Deep Diving, Decompression Diving, Stage Decompression Diving, Stage Diving, Mixed Gas Diving. The # 1 Factor in Scuba Diving Accident : Absence of required Qualification

È IMPRESSIONANTE L'ATTREZZATURA CHE QUESTI SUB SI PORTANO ADDOSSO DELLA QUALE MOLTE APPARECCHIATURE SONO IN DOPPIO. SEMBRANO ASTRONAUTI.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sad. they would have get more studies / facts / info / data on deep diving prior entering the cave.

Why they did it? There is a bunch of info online on how divers die on those underwater caves. I don't understand How can a group of divers be so reckles ?

the divers may have accidentally taken a turn down the wrong passage as they were trying to exit the caves, from which there “was no way out.”

Very🤿hazardous sport Even dive instructors and experts in this field perish from unpredictability and danger involved

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I've never dived a day in my life but even I know better than to dive in a cave.