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World Service,9 mins

The cave divers who went back for their friends

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Vesa Rantanen was one of five Finnish divers who travelled to a remote part of Norway to dive in a spectacular underwater cave called Plura Cave. The cave system is over 2km long and 130m deep. It's an incredibly dangerous dive and, on this occasion, two of the men died. The three divers who survived carrried out a secret recovery of their friends' bodies. Another Finnish diver, Sami Paakkarinen, was part of that second team. Vesa Rantanen remembers that first dive in 2014.(Photo credit: Jarkko Virtanen)

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