A diver has died while traversing one of Australia\u2019s most extensive cave systems.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to Tank Cave at Tantanoola, near Mount Gambier, to reports of a drowning about 10.30am on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Police raced to the scene, where they found a 65-year-old Victorian man had died.<\/p>\n
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n An operation with officers from the Water Operations Unit was launched to retrieve the man\u2019s body.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no reports of any other injuries and there are no safety concerns regarding the incident,\u201d South Australia Police said.<\/p>\n Tank Cave\u2019s \u201cextensive maze-like system\u201d boasts more than seven kilometres of diveable passage, according to the Cave Divers Association of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis makes it one of the longest underwater caves in Australia,\u201d the Association said.<\/p>\n The dive spot in the state\u2019s southeast is reportedly called Tank Cave because a water tank used to rest over the top of the entrance, where a short ladder first leads divers to a small surface lake.<\/p>\n The cave system previously claimed the life of world-renowned cave diver Agnes Milowka in 2011.<\/p>\n Milowka, 2019, separated from her group to explore a section of the cave when she ran out of air and drowned.<\/p>\n Some of her close friends were part of the team who worked for about a month to retrieve her body \u2014 including Richard Harris, who helped save 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in 2018.<\/p>\n It also comes just a day after a 60-year-old woman was saved<\/a> from a West Australian cave system.<\/p>\n The woman was freed about 5.30am on Saturday, after spending 12 hours trapped in the cave system in an area called Empress Spring, in the remote Goldfields.<\/p>\n Emergency services were only able to get her out of the cave with the use of a winch.<\/p>\n She was rushed to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Travellers cop major airport delays amid passport system outage<\/p>\n 1 min read<\/p>\n