shipped home to Italy, where relatives await them. The four bodies were found in a row, each in a separate compartment of the cave, which was itself a small chamber, entered through a narrow fissure in the reef, and lined with coral. The bodies lay in a line, head to feet, in a natural mortuary, which had been hewn out of the coral by the divers themselves. The corpses were clothed in bathing suits, and in the pockets of two were found tobacco and matches.
Original dispatch: Bodies of Italian divers did not have optimal equipment, says rescuer
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