Column: Atoll Dispatch
What was visible from the surface: a photo essay from the recovery dive at Devana Kandu
A photojournalist's record of the dive that killed Sergeant Mahudhee.
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The Devana Kandu tragedy: criminal probe, regulatory gaps, and the questions left unanswered
How a coral research trip ended in the country's worst diving disaster.
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