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Trapped cave diver died doing what she loved most

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The Age: HER delight on embarking on yet another cave-diving adventure is captured on the social networking site Twitter. ''… fabulous! Can't wait to get underground,'' Agnes Milowka declared on Friday.

On Sunday, however, something went awry for the accomplished Melbourne-based diver as she went exploring at Tank Cave, a seven-kilometre maze of passageways near Mount Gambier in South Australia. Worried members of her diving party reported her missing to police at 1.45pm.

Her body - trapped about 600 metres from the entrance of the subterranean cave system- has since been found, but retrieval remains hazardous and may take as long as five days, SA police said yesterday. The police are being helped in the operation by members of the Cave Divers Association of Australia.

Ms Milowka had ventured into Tank Cave before, describing it as ''a spiderweb gone wild'' and ''a joy to dive''. Superintendent Trevor Twilley said police would not be able to determine what went wrong until they recovered and tested Ms Milowka's equipment. There are reports that she separated from her diving buddy before she disappeared in deep water...

The Age

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