{"id":318038,"date":"2025-11-30T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:38:08","slug":"65yo-diver-drowns-at-tank-cave-near-mount-gambier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318038\/","title":{"rendered":"65yo diver drowns at Tank Cave near Mount Gambier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 65-year-old diver has drowned at a cave in South Australia&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to the scene at Tank Cave, near Tantanoola, at about 10.30am on Sunday following reports of an incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have confirmed that they have started a recovery operation, involving officers from the Water Operations Unit, for the 65-year-old Victorian man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A no entry sign to a property with two cars and grass\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764484688_718_164ce95b70091de1933d3e88a7a589ca\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The entrance to the cave is located on a private property in the state&#8217;s south-east. (ABC News: Eugene Boisvert)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The cave is about 25 kilometres from Mount Gambier and is one of 32 diving locations in the south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">SA Police say there are no other reports of any other injuries and that they have no further safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report is being prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old diver has drowned at a cave in South Australia&#8217;s south-east. Emergency services were called to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9495,64,63,149037,24675,36506,17724,4895,473,44,1158,8257,179409,179410],"class_list":["post-318038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ambulance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cave","tag-diving","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-services","tag-incident","tag-limestone-coast","tag-news","tag-police","tag-saas","tag-tantanoola","tag-tantanoola-caves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}