Underwater hockey
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Underwater hockey, also known as Octopush in the United Kingdom, is a limited-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's
Two players competing for the puck at the British Student Nationals in Bangor, 2009.
A 2014 underwater hockey tournament in Coetsenburg, South Africa
Typical dimensions of an underwater hockey pool
Black team defends the goal (back right of the image) from the White attack
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international syste
Underwater hockey
…members interested and active over the cold winter months when open-water diving lost its appeal. Underwater hockey is now played worldwide, with the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, abbreviated CMAS, as the world governing body. The first Underwater Hockey World Championship was held in Canada in 1980. Originally called "Octopush…
CMAS four-star diver certification card issued by South African Underwater Union, the South African affiliate in the 1980s, which later became the South African Underwater Sports Federation and CMAS Instructors South Africa, the current South African federations.