“It was supposed to be a short dive, but I never saw my wife alive again,” Giorgio Bettin told Italy’s Il Gazzettino.
said his wife was only supposed to go to 65 feet, but a guide took her more than 175 feet underwater. Giorgio Bettin’s wife Anna Maria Pistolato, an underwater photographer, dived the same Vaavu Atoll as the group, when the couple were newlyweds on vacation in the Maldives on Jan. 11, 1983.explore a cave 160 feet underwaterGiorgio Bettin’s wife died 40 years ago in the same spot that claimed the lives of five Italian tourists last week.
Bettin, who didn’t participate, said the plan was for the group of six to dive to 65 feet, but to his horror as he waited on the boat, Pistolato never resurfaced. He only later learned the group went at least 175 feet underwater, below the country’s legal recreational diving limit of 100 feet — a decision that was inexplicably made by their guide, he said.
“He was ordered to pay monetary compensation — something, honestly, that meant absolutely nothing to me,” said Bettin, who did not reveal the amount. Bettin’s story comes amid a police investigation into how the group drowned in the “shark cave” and why they made the decision to enter it in the first place. They only had regular oxygen tanks, not the trimix of oxygen, nitrogen, and helium required at those depths.
How sole survivor of ill-fated Maldives scuba dive that killed 5 narrowly escaped death What is oxygen toxicity? The scuba diving risk that may have caused 5 tourists’ deaths in the Maldives Italy opens its own investigation into divers’ deaths in Maldives as ‘very bad’ weather halts recoveryWith what the had in their scuba tanks, they could have only survived at most 10 minutes that deep, said one of the elite Finnish divers The Italian tour operator, Albatros, and the University of Genoa, which commissioned the research some of the marine biologists were in the Maldives to conduct, were quick to say they had not authorized the deep dive — and it was not part of the plan.
Five Italian tourists died scuba diving in the same spot that also claimed the life of Bettin’s wife 40 years ago. The circumstances and the aftermath are eerily similar to what happened to Bettin’s wife and himself — who said the way the victims’ families were treated afterward still leaves a bitter taste in his mouth.
“The first thing they wanted to do the very next day was to ship me off to Padua,” he said. “They found me a return flight and sent me back to Italy while the search operations were still underway. Giorgio Bettin's wife died 40 years ago in the same spot that claimed the lives of five Italian tourists last week.
Five Italian tourists died scuba diving in the same spot that also claimed the life of Bettin's wife 40 years ago.
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