Mortician details grim observation about divers' bodies who died in Maldives 'shark cave ...

Theory Briefing

• Divers died in a Maldives 'shark cave,' and a mortician flagged that post-death buoyancy shifts dramatically underwater, complicating cause-of-death analysis.
• Underwater buoyancy after death depends on decomposition gases and depth pressure — meaning body recovery patterns can reveal clues about how and where death occurred.
• The forensic physics of submerged corpses sits at the intersection of fluid dynamics and decomposition biology, turning a grim observation into a scientific lens on the tragedy.