In a few minutes the Dan Europe diving team will dive into the waters of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll, in the Maldives, to attempt to recover the bodies of the 4 Italians who never returned to the surface after last Thursday’s excursion into a cave 50 meters deep. The team is made up of three expert Finnish subspeleologists: Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist. In the cave there are the bodies of Monica Montefalcone, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, Muriel Oddenino and Federico Gualtieri.
DAN Europe (Divers Alert Network Europe) is an international non-profit medical and scientific organization, founded in 1983, committed to research, prevention and safety management in complex and high-risk environments.
The skills developed in underwater safety have been extended to the management of emergencies in extreme and remote contexts, characterized by isolation and limited health resources.
The organization’s primary purpose is to improve the safety of divers around the world through research, medicine and assistance.
DAN has an emergency operations center, active 24/7 globally, managed by emergency medicine specialists and recognized in Italy as a second level alarm center. Assistance is provided in over 30 languages.
Over 400,000 members globally. An international network of over 180 medical specialists. An average of 5,500 emergencies handled every year. The organization is one of the regional foundations that make up the IDAN (International Divers Alert Network) and reinvests the resources generated in the research and development of tools and services for the benefit of the community.