FOR experience diver Agnes Milowka there was nothing as exhilirating than discovering a hidden underwater passage.
The 29-year-old world renowned diver and former Flinders University student knew the risks of her chosen passion when she followed fellow enthusiasts into Tank Cave, a labyrinth of subterranean wonder between Millicent and Mt Gambier.
“There is no greater feeling in the world than finding a passage that no one ever in the history of the world has seen berfore.”
But on Sunday, Ms Milowka, who was a stunt double in James Cameron’s underwater thriller Sanctum, never surfaced, her life taken doing what she loved best.
The sinkhole to Tank Cave has been closed off while divers re-enter to plot the recovery of her body which is about 600m from the entrance.
Ms Milowka, who had explored caves from Tasmania to the Bahamas, was one of a group of Victorian divers visiting Tank Cave for the weekend and became separated from her companions.
In Sanctum, which is now showing at cinemas across Australia, Ms Milowka was a stunt diver for the two female characters in the movie.
In a horrific twist of irony, the movie centres around a group of cave divers who are pushed to the limit when an expedition goes tragically wrong.
