Four of the Italian divers were part of a University of Genoa team: Prof Monica Montefalcone, her daughter Giorgia Sommacal, and researchers Muriel Oddenino and Federico Gualtieri.
The fifth Italian victim was boat operations manager and diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti.
The Maldivian rescue diver who died while searching for their bodies has also been named as Staff Sgt Mohamed Mahdhee.
A Maldivian government spokesperson told the BBC that Mahdhee was part of a group of eight rescue divers who were trying to locate the bodies on Saturday.
“Eight rescue divers went into the water today. When they surfaced, they realised Mr Mahdhee didn’t come up,” Shareef previously told the BBC.
The other divers immediately went into the water again and they found Mahdhee was unconscious.
It is believed that the four bodies of the Italian group were located in the same underwater cave where the military found the first body on the day of the accident.
