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Wookey Hole - 75 Years of Cave Diving & Exploration



By Jim Hanwell, Duncan Price and Richard Witcombe

Published by the Cave Diving Group, with financial assistance from BCRA.

Price £15 (plus a 20% discount to BCRA members). Order Online.

368 pages (A4), fully-illustrated with maps, diagrams and photos in colour and monochrome.

Since the Middle Ages, visitors from all over Britain and beyond have been drawn to the magnificent cave system at Wookey Hole in Somerset where the River Axe flows through a series of grand chambers before emerging at the head of a rocky ravine. For the last 75 years, ever increasing numbers of tourists have been joined by an adventurous band of cave divers whose aim has been to explore the subterranean Axe and follow the river ever deeper into the Mendip Hills towards the feeder swallets on the plateau above. This book chronicles the saga of exploration from the hard hat, lead booted pioneers of the 1930s through the post-War "frogman" era to the high-tech, deep divers of the present generation. A story of triumph and occasional tragedy, it is told by the divers themselves and those who knew them well.

  • Hardback (ISBN 978-0-901031-07-5). £15. Weight 1.1kg. Spine width 28 mm. Format 178 x 247mm (7 x 9.7in). Sewn binding.

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A Description of the Book

This book is published by the Cave Diving Group with financial assistance from the British Cave Research Association.

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