Underwater football...
Is a two-team underwater sport that shares common elements with underwater hockey and
underwater rugby. As with both of those games, it is played in a swimming pool with snorkeling
equipment (mask, snorkel, and fins).
The goal of the game is to manoeuvre (by carrying and passing) a slightly negatively buoyant ball
from one side of a pool to the other by players who are completely submerged underwater. Scoring is
achieved by placing the ball (under control) in the gutter on the side of the pool. Variations include
using a toy rubber torpedo as the ball, and weighing down buckets to rest on the bottom and serve as
goals.
Underwater Hockey (UWH), (also called Octopush (mainly in the United Kingdom)):
is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the
bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal by propelling it with a pusher. It originated
in England in 1954 when Alan Blake, the founder of the newly formed Southsea Sub-Aqua Club,
invented the game he called Octopush as a means of keeping the club's 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 after a false start in 1979 brought about by international politics and apartheid.