Illustrated Underwater Rugby Rules

- by Lars Holst Hansen

The animations are made using Animation Shop 2 from JASC Software

You are not allowed to grab and hold an opponent - unless yourself or the opponent possesses the ball.
You are not allowed to hold on to the goal bucket (5.1.14 & 5.1.17).
The referee wont mind if you tremporarilly use the goal bucket to get your bearings as long as no opponents are close by.
The goalkeeper must not wedge his head, arms, legs, backside or any part of his body in the goal bucket (5.1.18) (in the illustrated case the advantage rule (6.4) applies though!).