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Maldives diver dies in operation to recover bodies of Italians from cave (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I would say this might make people less likely to dive there, but i think part of why they do this is because the body and gear is gonna kill the next idiot with a death wish who does this.

What these thrill seeking morons do has a massive death rate and a massive ancillary death rate of the people who have to then collect their stupid corpses.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure if this one was thrill seeking. The first team sounds like they were marine biologists either working or training

    The deceased have been identified as Monica Montefalcone, an associate ecology professor at the University of Genoa, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, marine biologist Federico Gualtieri, researcher Muriel Oddenino and diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti, whose body has been recovered.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The hell were they doing on a luxury yacht? That's just plain odd.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They'd probably hired it for the trip. Marine biologist divers need space for their gear, ideally a shower, and space to store stuff like specimens. And it looks like this one has enough space to also give them room to do regular paper and laptop work.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    That's the amazing part about someone stupid enough to put themselves and others in this position. You'd think the researchers weren't thrill seeking, but they willingly sought the opportunity to do this research because you get to do it at the same time as your crazy dangerous hobby. Maybe you've mixed them to the degree where your research depends on putting yourself and others in danger. I would feel the same way if they were doing climate research while diving out of planes in squirrel suits, but at least no one is risking death to clean them off the side of a bridge when they die.

    This idiot researcher dove 20 meters deeper than they should have been in the region they were at, go into an extremely deep and dangerous cave to do research, took her daughter and some other moron with a death wish. They all die, then they take a decorated rescue diver with them who's just trying to fish out corpses for the husband/father they left behind, and so it doesn't kill the next idiot to go down there.

    The worst part about cave diving at this level is how many often these people (missing parts of their brain like Alex Honold), take the rescue divers with them. The rescue divers being members of the same community most of the time, showing you just how fucking dangerous this bullshit is.

    But I bet the husband feels great they were doing important work! That'll be part of the eulogy and everything.

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