page_title: Underwater orienteering
section_title: Team events
hierarchical_section_title: Underwater orienteering / Events / Team events
caption_attribution_description: English: Underwater orienteering Team course option
context_page_description: Underwater orienteering is an underwater sport that uses recreational open circuit scuba diving equipment and consists of a set of individual and team events conducted in both sheltered and open water that test the competitors competency in underwater navigation. The competition is principally concerned with the effectiveness of navigation technique used by competitors to swim an underwater course following a route marked on a map prepared by the competition organisers, a compass and a counter meter to measure the distance covered. The sport was developed in the Soviet Union during the late 1950s and is currently played mainly in Europe. It is known as Orientation Sub in French and as La Orientación Subacuática in Spanish. Historically, the sport has also been known as Technical Disciplines.
context_section_description: The Monk Competition is an event where a team of two competitors is required whilst underwater to plan and then navigate from the start to the finish of the course via a number of orienteering points (also called control points) shown on a waterproof map provided at the start of the event within a maximum time of 18 minutes.  The map contains details of the shore lines, boundary of the competition area, and the exact position of start, finish and the control points to be located.  The course consists of one starting buoy and at least five control points of which the last to be located is the finish point.  All of the control points with exception to the finish point are not visible above the water's surface.  The overall length is 650 metres with control points spaced at 100 to 150 metres apart.  The teams are ranked using a point scoring system for the number of control points located and for the speed of the swim around the course.
  'The Team event is an event where a team of three or four competitors start alone and progressively meet each other during the underwater swim within specified time limits and finish the course as a group within 15 minutes 20 seconds.  Two variants of the event can be used subject to the water conditions at the competition site: Version A where the visibility is less than 2 to 3 metres and Version B where the visibility is greater than 2 to 3 metres.  Competitors are ranked individually using a point scoring system for the number of orienteering points reached and for the speed and precision of the swim at the finish around the course, multiplied by a factor determined by the number of competitors completing the course.
  The Relay orienteering event is a relay race offered in the International Rules as an optional event for CMAS and national championships.
caption: Team course option B
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