Helen Pugh<p>OnThisDay in 1935, Penelope Powell and Graham Balcombe did the first-ever cave dive. They did it here in Somerset in Wookey Hole Caves.</p><p>More on Penelope in Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Edition), coming in autumn.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wookeyhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wookeyhole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cavedive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cavedive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Somerset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Somerset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/womeninhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cavediving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cavediving</span></a> </p><p>Image: covers of the junior edition.</p>