page_title: HMS Scylla (F71)
section_title: Sinking and use as a dive site
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Scylla (F71) / Sinking and use as a dive site
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Navy Leander-class frigate HMS Scylla (F71) underway as part of the NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic, in 1989.
context_page_description: HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Devonport Royal Dockyard, the last RN frigate to be built there as of 2016. Scylla was commissioned in 1970, taken out of service in 1993 in accordance with Options for Change, and sunk as an artificial reef in 2004.
context_section_description: On 27 March 2004 Scylla was sunk off Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, to form the first such artificial reef in Europe.  The ship was 'planted' on a 24-metre (79 ft) sandy seabed at 50°19.655′N 4°15.162′W approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the wreck of the Liberty ship James Eagan Layne, which has been a dive site for many years.
  In 2007 two amateur divers were killed after entering the wreck. There are fears that the continuing deposition close to the wreck of dredged waste from the Tamar estuary has led to large quantities of silt spreading through the ship and frequently mixing with the moving water reducing visibility, thereby preventing divers from finding their way out before their air supply diminishes.
  Following a 2014 survey the National Marine Aquarium who manage the site advised divers not to enter the wreck and solely to undertake scenic dives.
caption: HMS Scylla after her Seawolf conversion in 1989
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