(SUHR) on a project to record and recover items from the riverbed alongside the town's massive whar

Since 2012 Rule worked closely with the Maritime Heritage Foundation, as chairman of its Scientific Advisory Committee.

Later life

Rule had been living with Parkinson's disease and arthritis in her later years. She died on 9 April 2015, aged 86.

Obituaries

* British Sub Aqua Club - 'Tributes paid to Dr Margaret Rule, lead