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Water sports

Whatever your sport you can enjoy yacht and dingy sailing, canoeing, surfing and jet skiing. There are clubs and facilities available for all standards.

Plymouth has hosted the start and finish of many major sailing events including the Fastnet, Transat, Tall Ships and Clipper Races.

HMS Scylla, an Exocet Leander Class Frigate was decommissioned in 1993 and bought by the National Marine Aquarium in 2003 to be placed on the seabed as a reef. Hundreds of fish have been reported on Scylla and the site is a great attraction for scuba divers keen to view its fast development and experience Plymouth from a different perspective.

The city also has a number of indoor and outdoor swimming pools and the refurbished art-deco lido at Tinside on Plymouth Hoe is open during the summer months. There are also a number of outdoor pools cut into the rocks at Tinside which are filled with sea water.

The Mount Batten Centre offers a vast range of both water and land-based sports activities, and offers training, educational and fun courses.