Upcoming Events

Come and Dive the North Norfolk Coast with Us!

If you are a diver who just wants to go diving, then these day trips or all of them are for you!

This is fairly independent in diving. You will need to let Ipswich Scuba know you are coming so we can send out the details of the dive site we intend to go to, timings for the day and where we shall meet for the day. You make your own way there, bring your own equipment (available to hire from Ipswich Scuba), meet up with your dive buddies and go diving. 

Do you want to extend your dive time?

Do you want to spend longer diving that reef/wreck?

What about having less surface interval and do more diving?

Then join us for one of the most of the popular dive courses! Highly recommended for those planning to travel abroad and enjoy longer dives.

Join us for a morning and learn how you can dive with Enriched Air (Nitrox). For more information or to book on click here. 

Upon completion, you will earn an SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 40% certification.

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Have you ever thought about what it is like to scuba dive? 

Our Try Scuba program is the best way to try scuba diving and experience the magical underwater world for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this 90-minute session, you will have earned our Try Scuba recognition card, which we register with SSI and undoubtedly you will want to go diving again.

To book on, for more information and to see what is included, visit our try scuba page.

Become an SSI Underwater Scuba Explorer with Ipswich Scuba Today!

The SSI Explorers program allows children from age 8 to go underwater and sample different ways they can explore the aquatic world around them. They will gain a solid foundation in ocean conservation and have the opportunity to experience four main scuba diving adventures.

Dates for this program are: 

Tuesday 11th August 2026
Tuesday 18th August 2026
Tuesday 25th August 2026
Tuesday 1st September 2026

Click here for more information or to book on.

The SSI Snorkel Diver program is your first step towards discovering a passion for the underwater world.

With a 90-minute session in confined water and under the guidance of an instructor, it is the best way to learn how to snorkel and develop your confidence in the water, so you can go snorkeling and explore the mesmerizing landscapes and wildlife of the aquatic world.

You do not need to be a proficient swimmer to participate in the Snorkel Diver program, and there is no minimum age to join. You just need to be comfortable in the water, able to maintain your buoyancy, and ready to begin the adventure of a lifetime and receive the SSI Snorkel Diver recognition card! 

For more information or to book on visit our snorkel diver page. 

Not dived for a while?

Need to practice your skills before your open water training dives?

It is easy for dive skills to get rusty and to lose confidence when you have not dived for a while. With our SSI Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time.

Our scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of an SSI Professional in our swimming pool session on a Tuesday evening. 

If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. 

Once completed we will register your experience with SSI. To book on or for more information click here. 

Join us for a weekend scuba diving for fun or come and do a course with us!

Join us for both days or just for one day.

Courses we can offer over this weekend are the Open Water dives of the Open Water Diver, Dry Suit Course, Wreck Diver, Deep Diver, and Navigation diver or just come join us for some social dives.

Contact us to book your place or register your interest.

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Not dived for a while?

Need to practice your skills before your open water training dives?

It is easy for dive skills to get rusty and to lose confidence when you have not dived for a while. With our SSI Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time.

Our scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of an SSI Professional in our swimming pool session on a Tuesday evening. 

If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. 

Once completed we will register your experience with SSI. To book on or for more information click here. 

Be prepared for an emergency with our React Right Course!

React Right is SSI’s emergency first response course. It provides you with in-depth first aid training and knowledge to act as a first responder in any medical emergency including a diving emergency. 

The SSI React Right Certification is a theory-based course - online and in-person with lots of practical applications in our well stocked classroom. 

To see the topics you will cover and to book on click here: 

If you have done this course before then you need to book onto our React Right - Recertification.

Come and Dive the North Norfolk Coast with Us!

If you are a diver who just wants to go diving, then these day trips or all of them are for you!

This is fairly independent in diving. You will need to let Ipswich Scuba know you are coming so we can send out the details of the dive site we intend to go to, timings for the day and where we shall meet for the day. You make your own way there, bring your own equipment (available to hire from Ipswich Scuba), meet up with your dive buddies and go diving.

Click here for more information. 

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Have you ever thought about what it is like to scuba dive? 

Our Try Scuba program is the best way to try scuba diving and experience the magical underwater world for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this 90-minute session, you will have earned our Try Scuba recognition card, which we register with SSI and undoubtedly you will want to go diving again.

To book on, for more information and to see what is included, visit our try scuba page.

The SSI Snorkel Diver program is your first step towards discovering a passion for the underwater world.

With a 90-minute session in confined water and under the guidance of an instructor, it is the best way to learn how to snorkel and develop your confidence in the water, so you can go snorkeling and explore the mesmerizing landscapes and wildlife of the aquatic world.

You do not need to be a proficient swimmer to participate in the Snorkel Diver program, and there is no minimum age to join. You just need to be comfortable in the water, able to maintain your buoyancy, and ready to begin the adventure of a lifetime and receive the SSI Snorkel Diver recognition card! 

For more information or to book on visit our snorkel diver page. 

Do you have your own kit but wish to know how to look after it? 

The SSI Equipment Techniques specialty is the best way to learn how to choose and store your dive kit. Working with an experienced and trained SSI Professional, you will learn in-depth information about the components of your Total Diving System and develop a thorough understanding of your diving equipment.

Join us for a day at the shop where we can show you how to make the most of your equipment and earn the SSI Equipment Techniques Certification. 

For more information or to book on click here

As Blue Ocean Ambassadors we want to protect our plant.  Sadly  sometimes litter builds up in our surrounding area on Hines Road, therefore we invite you to join us litter picking and cleaning up our local area and then come to the shop afterwards for a cuppa and join us for our annual BBQ. 

Join Ipswich Scuba and all your buddies for a relaxing afternoon with good food and even better company. Bring a chair, something fore us to cook and some bread and we can supply the rest. Bring your friends and family too. 

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

In our SSI Diver Stress and Rescue specialty program, we will teach you the skills you need to protect yourself and other divers. 

You will learn:

How to identify stress
How to prevent accidents
How to conduct rescues
How to provide emergency care.

Through online learning, and a combination of 3 x pool and open water practice sessions, you will become well prepared and confident at handling emergency and rescue situations.

Dates for this program

Pool 1 - 1st September
Pool 2 - 8th September
Pool 3 - 15th September
Open Water Training at Stoney Cove - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September. 

Increase your diving confidence and skills with the support of Ipswich Scuba. 

For more information, dates and to book click here. 

This globally recognized certification program is the best way to begin your lifelong adventures as a certified scuba diver.

With our personalised training, combined with theory, confined water and open water practice sessions, we will ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater and you will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.

For more information of the course details please visit our open water diver page for the full open water program or for the referral program click here. 

Dates for this program are scheduled as:

1. Registration at shop before your course
2. Referral section of the Open Water Diver (Academics and Confined Water Sessions)
   Tuesdays 7.15 pm - 9 pm at the swimming pool
   Tuesday 1st September 2026
   Tuesday 8th September 2026
   Tuesday 15th September 2026
   Tuesday 22nd September 2026
   Tuesday 29th September 2026
   Academic sessions to be completed online and then arrange a visit to the shop. 
3. Open Water Dives weekend can be completed abroad or at any of our Stoney Cove weekends. 

Join your Ipswich Scuba buddies for some lovely diving in Swanage.

Swanage Pier is a suitable dive site for divers of all qualifications as it is one of the few sheltered sea diving sites on the south coast and is popular to divers of all levels. You can choose to join us on the boat trips organised by Divers Down or dive the pier or do a mixture of the both.

4th - 6th September - driving up Friday 4th September

For more information of the weekend visit Swanage – Ipswich Scuba

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Have you ever thought about what it is like to scuba dive? 

Our Try Scuba program is the best way to try scuba diving and experience the magical underwater world for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this 90-minute session, you will have earned our Try Scuba recognition card, which we register with SSI and undoubtedly you will want to go diving again.

To book on, for more information and to see what is included, visit our try scuba page.

As Blue Ocean Ambassadors we want to protect our plant. Therefore we invite you and your family and friends to come along and join us. All you need to do is bring some gardening gloves and ideally a high-vis top and we can supply the rest. This time we are going to hit the beach at Felixstowe. Meeting outside the Fludgers at 2.15 pm - an hour and a half of litter picking then fish and chips at the pier. For more information click here. 

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Join us for a weekend scuba diving for fun or come and do a course with us!

Join us for both days or just for one day.

Courses we can offer over this weekend are the Open Water dives of the Open Water Diver, Dry Suit Course, Night and Limited Visibility, Wreck, Navigation, Deep, Stress and Rescue diver or just come join us for some social dives.

Contact us to book your place or register your interest.

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice and for booking onto the pool please give us 48 hours notice. 

Be prepared for an emergency with our React Right Course!

React Right is SSI’s emergency first response course. It provides you with in-depth first aid training and knowledge to act as a first responder in any medical emergency including a diving emergency. 

The SSI React Right Certification is a theory-based course - online and in-person with lots of practical applications in our well stocked classroom. 

To see the topics you will cover and to book on click here: 

If you have done this course before then you need to book onto our React Right - Recertification.