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Body retrieved

The Age

Thursday March 3, 2011

THE body of a Melbourne cave diver has been recovered from the underwater channels where she was trapped. Agnes Milowka, 29, ran out of air after becoming separated from her diving companion on Sunday in Tank Cave near Mount Gambier, South Australia.Members of the close-knit diving community had retrieved her body, police said yesterday.The eight-kilometre-long system is one of Australia's longest underwater caves, and divers had to clear and widen the channels to retrieve her body 600 metres from the entrance to the sink hole.It is understood Ms Milowka's parents were at the site.

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