Dive Wellington with Island Bay Divers – PADI Open Water, Buy or Hire Dive Gear

  • We are Wellington City’s most experienced dive store (established 1985) and provide the full range of dive services – scuba dive classes & training, trips & equipment. For more information see our training and retail pages.

    Welcome to Island Bay Divers

  • Fill up quick and get back in the water – Island Bay Divers has the biggest compressor in Wellington, so no waiting for tank fills!

    Biggest compressor in Wellington

  • Island Bay Divers has 24 hour turn around on all tank testing, so your dive gear is sorted and ready to get back in the water.

    24 hour turn around on all tank testing

  • Learn to scuba dive at Island Bay Divers – we include more sea dives than any other Wellington Openwater course.

    More sea dives than any other Wellington Openwater course

  • Island Bay Divers will service any brand of scuba gear sold in New Zealand – book in your dive gear for servicing now!

    We service any brand of scuba sold in New Zealand

  • Join our club dives and 4WD trips to the South Coast & Kapiti – weather permitting – every week.

    Club dives, 4WD trips, and boat dives South Coast & Kapiti weather permitting every week

Sign up for a dive course

Want to learn how to dive?

You can learn to dive in an Open Water dive course, take a refresher diving course or learn advanced scuba diving skills 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.

What’s New?

Wellington weather forecast/ dive conditions 25/5/24

May 25, 2024

Inshore conditions at Island Bay 8am – 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. Wind nil, visibility ‘poor’, cloudy, sea temperature 13 c, slight sea , swell 0.8 m,  high […]

Wellington weather forecast/ dive conditions 23/5/24

May 23, 2024

Inshore conditions noon at Island Bay – updated daily on Island Bay Diver’s front page .  IBD is now on winter hours, 9am – 6pm  closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays , open the other 5 days of the week. Wind nil, visibility ‘poor’, cloudy, sea temperature 13 c, slight sea , swell 1.5 m,  high tide @ […]

Wellington weather forecast/ dive conditions 20/5/24

May 20, 2024

Inshore conditions 10:30 am at Island Bay – updated daily on Island Bay Diver’s front page .  IBD is now on winter hours, 9am – 6pm  closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays , open the other 5 days of the week. Wind nil, visibility ‘OK’, cloudy, sea temperature 13 c, slight sea , swell 0.5 m,  high tide […]

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