Margaret Naylor

Foss held a salvage licence to a sunken Spanish ship from the Armada which had gone down in Tobermory Bay in 1588.

The first dive almost ended in disaster as Naylor's suit telephone stopped working and the surface team started to haul her up.

Her exploits as the first woman deep-sea diver were reported in the American magazine Popular Science Monthly in August 1920.

[5] Her career became more publicly known in the United Kingdom in 1922 following an article in The Daily News which was syndicated across North America and Australia.

[6][7][8] Two years later, in 1924, it was reported that following an injury to Foss that Naylor was in charge of renewed salvage efforts on the wreck.