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.

Shop hours are 9am to 6pm seven days a week most of the year. In winter the shop is open 5 days a week – closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, open Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and every weekend through the year.

We provide the full range of dive services – snorkel and scuba dive classes & training, dive trips, diving equipment retail and gear servicing.

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.

Island Bay is the centre of Wellington’s Taputeranga Marine Reserve. The reserve extends for 5 km from Princess Bay and ends just past the Te Kopahou Visitor Centre. Wellington also has the only snorkel trail in a major city. This is one of only three trails in NZ.

Island Bay Divers put up the proposal for this reserve to DoC in 1989. 20 years later when the reserve was announced we were asked to choose the site and install its snorkel trail.

If 7/8ths of the Planet Earth is underwater, you haven’t seen the world until you’ve completed a dive course. Scuba and snorkel courses are scheduled every month. Join us in the silent world 15 minutes from Wellington’s centre.