‘I SWEAR THE EXIT WAS RIGHT THERE… THEN EVERYTHING WENT BLACK.’ A chilling new theory could finally explain the Maldives cave disaster after rescue divers revealed the victims may have been tricked by a de@dly underwater illusion. Investigators now fear the tourists spent their final moments desperately swimming toward what they believed was freedom — only to discover the escape route never existed.
THE mysterious Maldives tragedy could be explained by a “sand wall illusion” theory, the Finnish divers who recovered the bodies believe. Five Italian tourists were killed while exploring…