Agnes Milowka
SAD DEATH (26th Feb 2011)
The Eurotek team were sad to announce
the death of 2010 speaker Agnes Milowka. Agnes was diving
Tank cave in southern Australia. when she failed to surface
it was feared she was dead. Leading Australian divers
had located her body at the end of a tight passage some
600m into the system. At the time of writing her body
had not been recovered. The Eurotek team knew Agnes well
and she will be sorely missed.
News report :- click
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About Agnes
Milowka
It didn't take long for Ag to become hooked on blowing
bubbles - after her first underwater breath she thought
'this is what I want to do with my life!!' Indeed since
then diving has been at the very centre of her existence.
Initially fascinated with reefs and fish, it wasn't long
until the focus shifted to wrecks.
Captivated not just by their sheer beauty but also by
their stories and history, she went from being a keen
and avid wreck diver to a wannabe maritime archaeologist
and did a Graduate Diploma in Maritime Archaeology at
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Her desire to pursue untouched and pristine wrecks meant
going ever deeper and having to play with more gear and gases
to do so. Recently, when tackling deep dives, the O2ptima
has become her weapon of choice.
These days it is the caves, both wet and dry, that have her
enthralled and she is most passionate about the exploration
of never before seen passage. Ag spent a year living and diving
in Florida's cave country, where she got her first taste of
laying line. It is a phenomenal feeling to reach a place that
no other human has ever seen before and she was hooked. Ag laid
over 4km of line across a number of cave systems, the most significant
of which was Mission Spring. She feels privileged to have seen
the far reaches of some of the most beautiful caves in the world
in Australia, the US and the Bahamas.
Upon her return to Oz she became one of only a handful of
divers to dive to the back end of Cocklebiddy Cave, the longest
cave in Australia. Currently based in Melbourne, she continues
to be a danger to all virgins… virgin caves that is.
Recently she pushed through numerous sumps in order to discover
in excess of 1500m of dry cave passage, in what has become
the deepest cave in Victoria.
Ag continues to go where no man has gone before, exploring
and pushing new cave systems and bringing back images from
her adventures. She is an up and coming photographer and is
pursuing her interest in underwater photography and video
with vigour. She was part of a National Geographic Team on
a project to the Blue Holes of the Bahamas and hopes to be
a part of similar projects in the future.
At Eurotek Agnes will present on some of her exciting cave
diving adventures around the world alongside some stunning
photography.
See 60 minutes story on Agnes Milowka click
here >>
Visit Agnes' website at: www.AgnesMilowka.com
Photographs of Agnes Milowka
Above: A shot taken during
the 2009 Cocklebiddy expedition photo by Leigh Bishop
Above: Milowka signing the
visitors book in Toad Hall during the 2009 Cocklebiddy expedition
after surfacing from a 4km cave dive photo by Leigh Bishop
Above: A shot taken of Milowka
in Azure Blue cave in Florida Photo by Wes Skiles
Below is a selection of images
of Agnes's Choice
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