Dive centres by region · 2026 guide
Melbourne has 12 dive businesses in the directory. A large, experienced cold-water diving market with unusually deep technical capability.
Here are the operators with the most complete, source-backed profiles.
1Frankston, Victoria
A Frankston PADI 5 Star IDC teaching since the early 1970s, with IANTD technical and cave training, a marine biologist on staff, and in-house cylinder testing.
Listed by PADI as a 5 Star Instructor Development Centre; teaching in Melbourne since the early 1970s.
Offers PADI and IANTD courses, including technical and cave diving.
2Mordialloc, Victoria
A Mordialloc dive shop and club teaching PADI, IANTD and AIMA/NAS courses to instructor level, with regular social dives and the shipwreck-hunting team Southern Ocean Exploration.
Teaches PADI, IANTD and AIMA/NAS courses from beginner to instructor level, from a retail shop in Mordialloc.
Runs the Aquability Divers Group: divemaster-supervised shore and boat dives every second Saturday from December to Easter, and monthly in winter.
3Rowville, Victoria
A Rowville dive centre operating since 2000, a PADI 5 Star IDC and SSI Instructor Training Center with TecRec training and the Aquaholics dive club.
Part of the Victorian dive industry since 2000; under current owners since early 2018, with a conservation and safety focus.
Listed by PADI as a 5 Star Instructor Development Centre and by SSI as an Instructor Training Center.
4Melbourne, Victoria
A PADI 5 Star IDC that now describes itself as the only dive centre based on Western Port Bay, diving Flinders' seadragon habitat and Port Phillip's piers and reefs.
Listed by PADI as a 5 Star Instructor Development Centre; it describes itself as the only dive centre based on Western Port Bay.
Courses run from Discover Scuba and Open Water to Advanced, Rescue, Divemaster, specialties, ReActivate and junior programmes.
5
Melbourne, Victoria
A Victorian equipment and service business with an extensive retail presence, located to serve both Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula divers.
Located at Rye on the Mornington Peninsula.
Provides air, Nitrox and oxygen fills, and states open-circuit or rebreather cylinders can usually be filled while you wait.
6Cheltenham, Victoria
Adreno's Cheltenham store, opened in 2016, selling spearfishing, freediving and scuba equipment and offering SSI scuba courses.
Adreno opened its Melbourne store in 2016; it lists SSI scuba courses at its stores.
7Melbourne, Victoria
A Victorian operation associated with recreational and technical training and access to Port Phillip diving.
8Melbourne, Victoria
A Melbourne business providing training and equipment support for local divers.
Centres are ordered by how much of what they offer we could confirm from a primary source — training agencies, boats, courses, gas fills, servicing — plus published contact details and photos. It is a documentation ranking, not a review score, and nobody pays to be listed.
No. Listings and order come from our research only. Businesses can ask us to correct their details, but not to change their position.
It is generated from the directory's latest research, checked in 2026. Conditions, operators and seasons change — confirm details with the operator before you book.