The divers who came to retrieve the bodies of the Italian divers are among the most experienced cave divers in the world.Two of them were involved in the infamous Plura Cave Incident.Patrik Grönqvist survived the Plura tragedy and later refused to leave his friend’s body inside the cave system. He returned into the cave with a small group of fellow divers on an extremely dangerous recovery mission.One of the divers who joined him was Sami Paakkarinen and he was also part of the Maldives recovery