Island Bay Divers is now on winter hours for the next six months: Monday, Thursday, Friday open 10am to 6pm; Saturday,  Sunday & Public Holidays open 9am to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays.  

Looking for the easiest way to multi-task your priority mission objectives i.e. meet other divers, improve your experience level and skills, and gain new specialty dive ratings. Well, here it is, Muchacho/as!  In the next couple of weeks we will be running the following courses: Rescue diver $350  - 12 dives – starts 26/1 Advanced diver $350… [Continue Reading]

Bring ‘em back alive As you probably know about 10 days ago some vandals tried to poison the fish in the tanks of the Marine Education Centre (MEC) at the bait house in Island Bay. Most of the large specimens were saved but most of the small stuff didn’t survive the attack. MEC needs more… [Continue Reading]

Dive Guys are organising a trip to Northland for a couple of days diving (Wed 22/5 – Sat 25/5) and want to know if we have anyone that wants to come along. Cost is $365 per person, or $750 for couples. Itinerary is 3 reef dives & 1 x dive on the Frigate Canterbury, includes… [Continue Reading]

Summer hours start today.  The shop is now on summer hours for six months.   Open 7 days a week, 9am to 6pm. That’s 60+ hours a week to ensure you can hire gear, no wait airfills from Wellington’s biggest compressor, get gear serviced, do boat trips, do club dives, buy scuba/ freedive/ spearo gear with a… [Continue Reading]

Sebastian Krammer (SSI Freediving Instructor) is running another basic Freediving course , at the Kilbernie Aquatic Centre.  This starts Friday night 16/11 and finishes Sunday 18/11.  This introductory course covers 4 hours of academics, 2 hours of pool training, 4 hours of sea sessions , plus a final exam. Training materials are provided for the course and… [Continue Reading]

If you are catching crayfish at the moment you need to check they are not in soft shell.  Along the South Coast for the next couple of weeks,  male crayfish are shedding their old shell as they grow bigger. It is illegal to take a crayfish when it is in ‘soft shell phase’. If you… [Continue Reading]

  The South Coast Combined Clean up Coalition is doing their annual beach clean on 16/9/12. Our sector is Island Bay West, but there are 12 sectors along the coast from Quarry gates to Pass of Branda, so you can pick your location of preferance. Bags, gloves, instructions etc. will be issued at the 12 briefing… [Continue Reading]

Scallop Season opens this Sunday . The scallop season starts this Sunday  (15/7) and runs for seven months.  This season finishes on St Valentine’s day 14 February 2014. Don’t forget.. shore divers in the Wellington area have a limit of 20 per person  provided the shellfish are at least above the minimum size of 100 mm across their… [Continue Reading]

There is a tiny island in the South Pacific that is in the middle of the spring migration track for whales in our hemisphere. Many say it has the best visibility in the world because of it’s isolation and the lack of any rivers on the island.   This Island is Nuie and IB Divers… [Continue Reading]