<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="http://9news.com.au/italy" rel="" target="" title="Italy"><span>Italy</span></a><span>'s Foreign Ministry says rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave in a Maldive atoll. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The searches resumed today after being </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/maldives-italian-divers-military-diver-dies-searching-for-bodies-of-4-italians-in-an-underwater-cave/d24bfee6-31f4-4ae2-afc7-10ca5d212d18" rel="" target="" title="suspended following the death of a local military diver"><span>suspended following the death of a local military diver</span></a><span> during a perilous mission to try to reach them. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Five Italian divers are believed to have died while exploring a cave at a depth of about 50 metres in Vaavu Atoll on Thursday, according to Italy's Foreign Ministry. The recreational diving limit in the Maldives is 30 metres.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-news-woman-and-two-kids-found-dead-in-campbelltown/eacd6982-9c69-421e-a35b-12d052472649"><strong><span>Woman, two children killed in alleged domestic violence attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cake-decorating-powder-recalled-after-child-hospitalised/fdbb48de-e6ea-4f6f-9897-7d018c1d05bc" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Recall for dessert product that put toddler into coma</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span> The body of one Italian — a diving instructor — was found earlier outside the cave. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Three Finnish divers had arrived in the Maldives yesterday to draw up a fresh plan in the search for the bodies of the other four, who were believed to be inside the cave system. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/maldives-divers-italian-divers-bodies-found-in-sea-cave-italys-foreign-ministry-says/dda59602-a4e3-43b1-a31d-4d23cc741a8c" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maldives presidential spokesperson Mohamed Hussain Shareef said the search was suspended after Mohamed Mahudhee, a member of the Maldivian National Defence Force, died of underwater decompression sickness after being transferred to a hospital in the capital on Saturday. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Shareef said yesterday that three Finnish divers, experts in deep and cave diving, had arrived in the archipelago nation and joined the Maldives coastguard in a meeting aimed at mapping a new search strategy. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Rough weather has repeatedly hampered rescue efforts. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Initial teams had already dived to identify and mark the entrance to the cave system where the Italians disappeared. 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