The club has experienced divers and instructors that can offer good advice if you want to get into your own set of SCUBA equipment. We can talk you through the buying of both new and second hand and tell you the do’s and do-nots of buying such equipment.

We have good relationships with several stores – we go where the best deals are for each thing! You must present your membership card to receive these deals.

Dive Centre

97 Wairau Road, Takapuna (09 444 7698)

At Dive Centre Ltd, NZ’s longest running dive store, your comfort and safety are paramount. Extremely high quality, standardised rental equipment is your assurance of safety and reliability while diving. All scuba equipment is maintained to the highest industry standard. They use only AquaLung Regulators, Alternate Air Sources, and BCD’s, coupled with the leading Suunto brand dive computers. Get comfortable in the same high quality gear each time you dive. Pre-departure inspections and cylinder pressure checks are standard when you hire.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• $5 super clean air fills.
• 15% off any retail item not already on sale.
• Hire full set of gear with 2 cylinders $56.25 for the first day, $30 for each subsequent day.
• Hire full set of gear with 1 cylinder $45, $30 for each subsequent day.
• They also rent scooters! Wheeee!

Dive Doctor

106 Potts Road, Whitford (09 530 8117)

Over 25 years of experience in servicing SCUBA gear and certified in over 20+ brands from Apeks to Zeagle. From a simple check to a full service, call the Dive Doctor. They can repair or alter your wetsuit or drysuit, from a small tear in a wetsuit to a new zip in a drysuit, the possibilities are endless. NZ importers of  Poseidon, Viking, Miflex, AP Valves, Tektite, Metalsub, XSSCUBA to name just a few. They don’t have a flash dive shop but they do have flash prices on gear – they can get it ALL, just flick them an email with what you are looking for and they will get you a great price.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• 15% off servicing
• 15% off repairs

Global Dive

6/1 Westhaven Drive, Westhaven (09 920 5200)

Global Dive are great for technical diving! They have stacks of experience, a full range of OMS gear, and even rebreather spares and consumables. You can also rent a lot of their technical gear, including twin sets, side mount equipment, canister lights, plates, harness and regs.

Show your membership card for access to 10% off any retail items not already discounted.

Standard prices are as follows:

• $8 air fills, or 10 for $50.
• Nitrox fills, EAN32 for $15, prices vary depending on oxygen content, all the way up to EAN100 if you are so inclined (and trained).
• Standard full gear hire (inc. 2 tanks, wetsuit) $80 first day, $60 subsequent days.
• Technical dive gear available for hire, including Twin sets, Side mount equipment, Canister lights, Plates, Harness and regs. Stage tanks from Hypoxic Trimix up to 100% O2.
• Trilam drysuits (inc. undersuit and hose), $65 one day, $100 weekend, rental refunded if you buy a drysuit from them!

Goat Island Dive & Snorkel

42a Pakiri Road, Leigh (Freephone 0800 DIVE NZ – 0800 348 369)

Auckland’s 5 Star Resort located 1 hour north of Auckland CBD.

• Day trips to Auckland’s Outer Hauraki Gulf Islands including the Mokohinau Islands, Great Barrier, Little Barrier, Hen & Chickens Group and Goat Island Marine Reserve. Our vessel Apollo cruises at 23+ knots, has a diver lift, hot water shower, and sundeck. All levels from novice to experienced divers welcome. Hunting, photography and scenic diving.
• PADI Try Dive Experiences at the Outer Gulf Islands or off Goat Island beach – An excellent experience for non-certified divers wanting to see if they enjoy diving before committing to an OW course
• PADI Snorkel Tours at Goat Island
• Scuba and Snorkel Hire
• Scuba and Snorkel Retail
• NZU air fills

Show your student card for discounts on:

• Air fills – $7, NZUnderwater approved
• Dive Trips – 15% discount
• PADI Try Dive Experiences – 15% discount
• Hire equipment – 15% discount
• Retail items (not on sale) – 15% discount

New Zealand Diving

20 McCallum Drive, Sandspit, Warkworth  (09 422 3599)

Train in the luxury surrounds of our Warkworth Centre away from the stress of city life. Alternatively we come to you and run evening courses at the Olympic Newmarket Pool and Ellerslie Highway Motel conference centre. All our rental and training gear is based on Scubapro equipment with Uwatec computers. Full range of twin sets and stage bottles are available for hire, along with Nitrox and Trimix air fills at additional costs if required.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• $5 super clean air fills (exc. Nitrox).
• 20% off any retail item not already on sale in store.
• Cylinders only for $8 per 24 hours.
• Full stocks held on ALL aspects of dive equipment, including technical diving

Ocean Hunter (Spearfishing)

100 Gaunt Street, Westhaven (09 377 0896)

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• 15% off all retail items not already discounted.

Performance Diver

74 Barrys Point Road, Takapuna (09 489 7782)

New Zealand’s largest dive retailer. Buy direct from the importer. Excellent value on all equipment purchases.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• $6 air fills.
• Full rental with one cylinder $50/day.
• Full rental with two cylinders $67/day.

Rock Salt Scuba

Rock Salt Scuba is an SDI/ TDI training facility based in Auckland that offers a full range of highly flexible recreational and technical diving courses.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• 10% discount on all training courses
• Opportunity to gain a “frequent diver discount” giving almost 30% off full price

Wild Blue (Spearfishing)

Unit H, 121 Rosedale Road, Albany (09 478 8695)

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• 15% discount on retail items not already discounted.

Seaquel Wetsuits

15G Porana Road, Glenfield (09 443 2771)

A New Zealand owned and operated wetsuit manufacturer since 1989. They make great quality two-piece, semidry, and spearfishing wetsuits; if you go on a club trip look around, loads of us have Seaquel wetsuits.

They also manufacture wetsuits for the New Zealand and French Navy divers, New Zealand coastguard, water heated 10mm thick suits for oil-rig divers, and other big orders, I forget where from… so they must be good right?

Also a good place to take your suit for repair or modification (such as pockets).

Show your membership card, and student ID for a 10% discount on new wetsuits (including custom suits), there is no discount on repair or alterations.

Fish on Film

Golflands, near Botany Downs (09 535 5439 or 021 780 064 to book)

This guy rents out underwater cameras, underwater video cameras, and strobes!

Show your membership card, and get access to the dive club regular customers discount! The discount is a minimum of 10%, and is growing as club members go more often! Short term hires of 1-2 days will eventually attract an up to 45% discount. Longer hires have a maximum discount of 25%.

Check here for prices, you can rent out a still camera for as low as $30 a day before the discount; this place can’t be beat for a great deal.

You will have to put down a $500 bond before renting, these cameras are expensive. Credit card is easiest, but call to inquire about other options. An imprint of your credit card (visa or mastercard) is taken and kept until the rig is returned. He doesn’t charge or pre-authorise the $500 through to the card, so the card account is unaffected.

There are multiple options for cameras, from beginner to more advanced. We can vouch for the Sony P150 for being super easy to use, with great quality photos, but we’re sure the others are good too.

Before you take it away for the first time he spends about 20 minutes with you, explaining how the camera works, how to ensure it does not leak, and tips for taking great photos. So this is a great way to try out underwater photography on a low low budget.

He also sells specialist photography gear (not so much point and shoot cameras and housings) such as strobes, wet lens adapters, dSLR housings, video housings and video lights so definitely worth asking for a quote before your next purchase.

Dive Tutukaka

Poor Knights Dive Centre, Marina Road, Tutukaka (09 434 3867, 0800 288 882, email: info@diving.co.nz)

New Zealand’s largest dive charter company, with five ocean-going vessels that take people diving and snorkelling at the Poor Knights Islands.

Show your membership card for access to these deals:

• 20% off the regular trip price
• 20% off gear hire

 

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