San Diego is home to some of the best weather in the US, access to the Pacific, and a number of great local state parks. UCSD’s Mission Bay Aquatic Center is one of the largest waterfront instructional facility in the world. The center teaches over 15,000 participants a year in wakeboarding, sailing, surfing, stand up paddling, waterskiing, rowing, kayaking, and windsurfing. The center offers private lessons, public classes, as well as rentals.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography–a department at UCSD– is one of the largest ocean and earth science research centers in the world. Particularly for educational opportunities in the field, UC San Diego is second to none.
