Join our learn to dive course and receive $1,000 of free hire gear (tca)

We try to visit a different site each week on club dives. If you have a 4WD vehicle bring it along.

Island Bay Divers will service any brand of scuba gear sold in NZ - book In for servicing now!

Learn to scuba dive (Open Water) at Island Bay Divers – no one does more sea dives.

Island Bay Divers has 24 hour turn around on all tank testing.

Fill up quick – Island Bay Divers has the biggest compressor in Wellington.

We are Wellington City’s most experienced dive store (established 1985) and provide the full range of dive services.

Island Bay Divers organises trips not just to the tropics but also to the top NZ ‘mecca’ dive sites .

Island Bay Divers

We have been diving longer than any other shop in Wellington

Welcome to Island Bay Divers, located on the corner of Reef St and The Parade, Island Bay. We have been operating longer than any other dive shop in Wellington. Let us show you around the area.

Shop hours are 9am to 6pm seven days a week for summer. In winter the shop is open 5 days a week – closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Island Bay is one of New Zealand’s top dive sites, located in the middle of the capital city, Wellington. It’s rocky coastline, bordering the deep clear waters of Cook Strait, provides a habitat for a wide variety of fish species.

Sign up for a dive course

Want to learn how to dive?

You can learn to dive in an Open Water dive course (we offer you $1,000 of free hire over eight weeks) on completion of the course .

You can take a refresher diving course,

or learn advanced scuba diving skills on our many continuing education couses with one of our experienced dive instructors.

Find out about learning to dive and our Wellington dive courses.

Join the Dive Club

We try to dive a different site each week (so membership is a good way to learn where all the good dive sites are around Wellington).

Shore dives are held every Saturday morning & start at the shop at 9am.

Find out about joining the Dive Club.

Buying and Servicing Dive Gear

We have Wellington’s largest air compressor giving the minimum wait for tank fills.

We also offer Air Cylinder Testing, Dive equipment hire, and New equipment for sale: We carry over 800 different stock items, including drysuits, wetsuits and semi drys, cylinders, spearfishing and free diving gear.

Check out our prices, brands and specials.

Latest Dive Condtions

Inshore conditions for Island Bay at 9 am – Updated daily.

Location : Island Bay

Wellington Dive Forecast/Island Bay

Inshore conditions for Island Bay at 2pm – updated daily on Island Bay Diver’s web site’s front page. IBD is now on Winter hours, 9am – 6pm closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays – open the other 5 days of the week.