{"id":16314,"date":"2026-05-24T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:45:57","slug":"most-plausible-case-for-why-the-5-divers-died-in-the-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16314","title":{"rendered":"Most plausible case for why the 5 divers died in the Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brigid and I have been following this tragic case since we are both experienced divers, having spent two years living in the Cayman Islands &#8211; 1979-81. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deaths were total human error. Even doing such a dive with regular air and without the very high level of training and specific equipment needed for cave diving, was incredibly risky. Since several of the divers were very experienced  it&#8217;s almost inexplicable. I have all sorts of dive certifications under the BSAC (British Subaqua Club) and PADI systems and have been down to 120&#8242; feet. But I would have laughed off any suggestion that I was qualified to do this sort of dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first video is the short version &#8211; 3 minutes &#8211; of what happened; the second a longer, more detailed explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sandbank Obscured Maldives Divers Exit?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJ8gBl4S3VU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the longer explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Were the Italian Divers So Far Apart? Finns Uncover Chilling Clue\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szwM5-6xFuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigid and I have been following this tragic case since we are both experienced divers, having spent two years living in the Cayman Islands &#8211; 1979-81. The deaths were total human error. Even doing such a dive with regular air and without the very high level of training and specific equipment needed for cave diving, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-science-and-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16315,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions\/16315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}