{"id":910882,"date":"2026-06-06T15:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/italian-tourists-killed-in-maldives-cave-dive-as-investigation-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:12:53","slug":"italian-tourists-killed-in-maldives-cave-dive-as-investigation-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/italian-tourists-killed-in-maldives-cave-dive-as-investigation-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian tourists killed in Maldives cave dive as investigation begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-ui=\"v2-article-section-top\">\n<section data-test-ui=\"article-section-top-main\">\n<header data-test-ui=\"article__header\" data-ref-group=\"header\">\n<div data-test-ui=\"article__header-info\">\n<div data-test-ui=\"breadcrumb-with-badges\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/\" data-test-ui=\"breadcrumb-home\">Home<\/a><span> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/\" data-test-ui=\"section-label\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-ui=\"article__action-bar\" data-ref-group=\"author\">\n<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p><time data-test-ui=\"author-display--date\">15 May, 2026 03:12 AM<\/time><span data-test-ui=\"author-read-time\"><span><\/span>2 mins to read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-ui=\"hero-container\">\n<p data-test-ui=\"hero-wrapper\">\n<figure data-test-ui=\"hero-figure\"><figcaption>Morning Headlines |\u00a0US and China leaders promise to play nice and Air New Zealand continues to see impacts of Iran war | Friday May 15, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section data-test-ui=\"article-top-body\">\n<p class>Five Italian tourists have died during an underwater diving trip in the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p class>According to Maldivian police, staff on the boat alerted authorities to the divers\u2019 disappearance about 1.45pm local time, more than an hour after they were expected to resurface, Italian newspaper <i>Il Messaggero<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class>\n         <span>The group were diving<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<div data-test-ui=\"ad\" id=\"ad-container\">\n<p><span data-test-ui=\"ad__heading\" data-ad-env=\"both\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"http:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Becki Volkman<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/italian-tourists-killed-in-maldives-cave-dive-as-investigation-begins\/MVT5GEGOOVCSXM4FL6CH3VFPHE\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \/ World NZ Herald 15 May, 2026 03:12 AM 2 mins to read Morning Headlines |\u00a0US and China leaders promise to play nice and Air New Zealand continues to see impacts of Iran war | Friday May 15, 2026 Five Italian tourists have died during an underwater diving trip in the Maldives. According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27294,4407],"tags":[16235,17307],"class_list":["post-910882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italian","category-tourists","tag-italian","tag-tourists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}