Underwater hockey
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underwater-hockey-178-13116384
title:
Underwater hockey
text:
Underwater hockey (UWH), also known as Octopush 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 hockey stick. A key challenge of the game is that players are not able to use breathing devices such as scuba gear whilst playing, they must hold their breath. The game originated in Portsmouth, England in 1954 when Alan Blake, a founder of the new
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Underwater sport of pushing a puck into the opposing goal
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_hockey
date created:
2004-02-25T09:22:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T15:16:04Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/OctopushTwoPlayers28092009.JPG","width":1600,"height":1200}
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13
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16