* Underwater Hockey gloves-with protective padding, usually of silicone rubber or latex, across the back of the fingers and knuckles to protect from impact with the puck ; usually only one, either left-or right-hand, is worn depending on which is the playing hand.

Underwater hockey ( UWH ; also called Octopush and Water Hockey ) is a global non-contact sport in which two teams compete to maneuver a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into goals.

Ten years later, the Underwater Hockey Association of British Columbia ( UHABC ) was formed and received support from the BC government.

At the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques ( CMAS ) 14th World Underwater Hockey Championship held in August 2006 in Sheffield, England, 44 teams competed in six age and gender categories, including teams from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Hungary, France, Jersey C. I., Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States.

Considerable political turmoil within Underwater Hockey's world governing body, CMAS, came to a head soon after the 2006 World Championship, resulting in the CMAS Underwater Hockey Commission members resigning en masse and soon thereafter forming an alternative ' world governing body ' solely for the sport of UWH, known as the World Aquachallenge Association ( WAA ), and which was officially ratified at the 1st WAA World Championship in March 2008.

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* Caversham Underwater Hockey Club

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* In some sports ( Underwater Hockey for example ), ' Barbarian ' may be used refer to an ad hoc team formed from players who do not normally play together but who combine together for a specific tournament competition.

Underwater acoustics was used for detecting submarines in the first World War.

There is innuendo in the name: the Internet domain fuck. co. uk was at one time held by fans of Viz who claimed to be promoting the Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb.

Following GEC's acquisition of Marconi as part of English Electric in 1968 the Marconi brand was used for its defence businesses e. g. Marconi Space & Defence Systems ( MSDS ), Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd ( MUSL ).

For surveying large areas, the GLORIA sidescan sonar was developed by Marconi Underwater Systems for NERC.

Underwater archaeology of the caldera basin to the north shows that the area was once densely forested with junipers when it was above sea level.

The survey was headed by Andrzej Kola, director of the Underwater Archaeological Department at the University of Toruń, and Mieczysław Góra, senior curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Łódź.

* The TV series Monk ( starring Tony Shalhoub ) featured several locked room puzzles, such as a Navy lieutenant shot dead in his cabin on a submarine ( Mr. Monk Is Underwater ), when the gunshot was heard by witnesses outside, or a monkey that supposedly shot its master when he barricaded himself in his panic room during a burglary ( Mr. Monk and the Panic Room ).

Marshall was involved in a U. S. Navy / National Research Council Panel on Underwater Swimmers.

It was headed by Marconi Underwater Systems Limited as Prime Contractor with Ferranti Computer Systems Ltd and Gresham Lion as major sub-contractors.

The production contract for the Spearfish Torpedo was placed with GEC-Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd ( now BAE Systems ) in 1983, following a development programme lasting for several years.

James Pond, also known as James Pond: Underwater Agent, is a platform video game that was developed by British video game developers Vectordean Ltd and Millennium Interactive, and published by Millennium Interactive and Electronic Arts for numerous home computers and consoles in 1990.

Underwater World Monorail Station of the now-defunct Sentosa Monorail once connected visiting tourists to the western half of the island, but it no longer does as the monorail was discontinued in March 2005.

Typical equipment at this time was a frogman rubber diving suit for insulation ( water temperature in the UK is typically 4 ° C ), an oxygen diving cylinder, soda lime absorbent canister and counter-lung comprising a rebreather air system and an " AFLOLAUN ," meaning " Apparatus For Laying Out Line And Underwater Navigation.

The US Navy funded most of the early ROV technology development in the 1960s into what was then named a " Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle " ( CURV ).

In 2008, the Underwater Digital Interface ( UDI ) was released to the market.

His most famous piece of this period was " Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, 1917 ", the only surviving work of a series of a swimmer whose image is distorted by the water.

The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program ( GUPPY ) was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines.

For the next 15 years, it was the Underwater Ordnance Station, and then the Underwater Weapons Research and Engineering Station until 1970.

That year, the Underwater Sound Lab from New London, Conn., was combined with the Newport facility to form the Naval Underwater Systems Center or NUSC.

On Tuesday August 28th, there was an " Underwater / Water Concert " at the DGI-byen swimcenter, in the hundred-metre DGI-byen pool, as well as the various other pools of the Vandkulturhuset.

Some of the first training started in 1952 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where Andy Rechnitzer, Bob Dill and Connie Limbaugh taught the first scuba courses in the United States, then in 1953 Trevor Hampton created the first British diving school, the British Underwater Centre and in 1954 when Los Angeles County created an Underwater Instructor Certification Course based on the training that they received from the scientific divers of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

This proved to be his next career and as a result, he started the British Underwater Centre, where he trained many people and some of the first members of the British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) in aqualung, oxygen rebreather diving and standard diving dress diving.

In 1952, the Thai Ministry of Defence started thinking about organizing Underwater Demolition Teams.

They briefly re-formed for a UK tour in 1994 and then again in 2001 for the 20th anniversary of Underwater Moonlight and the release of a new album, Nextdoorland ( in 2002 ).

Due to Lasgo's international appeal, Luts was asked to remix Delerium's track " Underwater " for EMI Germany, and also crafted a remix for Aurora's song " The Day It Rained Forever " on Positiva Records ( UK ).

* March: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration first published, under the auspices of the Council for Nautical Archaeology in the UK.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Underwater warfare and countermeasures were developed by Lionel Crabb.

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In 1942, a young physician named Christian J. Lambertsen invented the first Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus ( SCUBA ) and demonstrated it to OSS – after already being rejected by the U. S. Navy – in a pool at a hotel in Washington D. C.

A collection of barges on the southwest end of the lake, near the village of Watkins Glen, is being preserved and made accessible for scuba diving by the Finger Lakes Underwater Preserve Association.

Underwater the Nereo Cave, considered the biggest and spectacular marine underwater cave of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe, is the most visited by scuba-divers.

Underwater archaeology is often complementary to archaeological research on terrestrial sites because often the two are linked by many and various elements including geographic, social, political, economic and other considerations.

All traces of human existence underwater which are one hundred years old or more are protected by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

Underwater sites are often dynamic, that is they are subject to movement by currents, surf, storm damage or tidal flows.

* Capitalism versus Socialism in Underwater Archaeology by E. Lee Spence

* 1954: Underwater hockey ( octopush ) is invented by four navy sub-aqua divers in Southsea who got bored swimming up and down and wanted a fun way to keep fit.

It is presented by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve.

In 2007 Dave Walker recorded and released Walking Underwater, a CD featuring new material by Dave Walker, Bob Britten, and William O ’ Keeffe.

Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.

It is the only community college degree program in the nation which is accredited by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators ( ACDE ), the International Diving Schools Association ( IDSA ) and the National Association of Underwater Instructors ( NAUI ).

India is also planning to use the torpedo test facility to test the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle being developed by NSTL.

Competitive freediving is currently governed by two world associations: AIDA International ( International Association for Development of Apnea ) and CMAS ( World Underwater Federation ).

Underwater photographers solve this problem by combining two techniques.