Underwater Sports

Sports pursued beneath the surface rather than on it. Scuba diving uses a breathing apparatus to explore and to compete in set tasks, while freediving relies on a single held breath for depth, distance or time. What belongs here is a sport whose challenge is movement and endurance under water; surface swimming and diving boards are grouped with the swimming and diving disciplines. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Aquatic Sports category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.