Expedition Application Form

Six short sections, and a person reads every one of them. Tell us who you are and roughly when you can come, and we will tell you what is possible.

1 You
2 Your expedition
3 Diving
4 Health & safety
5 Passport
6 Finish

You

A star marks the answers we cannot process an application without.

First name

Last name

Email address

Mobile number

With the country code. This is usually how we reply — WhatsApp reaches us faster than email from the island.

Date of birth

Nationality

As it appears on your passport — it decides which visa route applies.

Home address

Your expedition

Roughly how long do you want to stay?

You can change this later — it tells us which of the three brackets to quote you.

Exactly how many weeks?

Only if you already know. Leave it blank otherwise.

Preferred start date

An approximate date is fine.

Published start dates

Every date is on the dates page.

Are you already a qualified diver?

No — I want to learn to dive here

Open Water and Advanced are included in the expedition fee for non-divers.

Yes — I already dive

Tell us about it in the next section.

Diving

If you have never dived, choose “Not qualified yet” and skip to the equipment list — none of the rest applies to you yet.

Your highest qualification

Which agency?

Logged dives

A rough number is fine.

Date of your last dive

Courses you would like to take

Nothing is booked by ticking these — they tell us what to plan around. Full details are on the dive training page.

PADI Emergency First Response (EFR)

Barefoot: Free · PADI: ~£60

PADI Rescue Diver

Barefoot: £220 · PADI: ~£100 (requires EFR completed first) · Needs PADI Emergency First Response (EFR) first

PADI Divemaster

Barefoot: £370 · PADI: ~£270 (crew pack, price may vary by courier) · Needs PADI Rescue Diver first

Equipment rental

Tick an item and a size box opens under it.

Buoyancy Control Device (BCD) — £20 per week

BCD size

Your usual size, in whatever sizing you know.

Full regulator set (1st stage, 2nd stage, octopus, SPG) — £20 per week

Mask & snorkel — £15 per week

Wetsuit (3mm shortie) — £15 per week

Wetsuit size

Your usual size, in whatever sizing you know.

Fins & dive boots — £20 per week

Fin & boot size

Your usual size, in whatever sizing you know.

Dive computer — £25 per week

Mandatory unless you bring your own · mandatory for all divers if not own one; £150 refundable deposit applies

Tank, weights and weight belt are included in every expedition fee at no extra cost. Dive torches are no longer available to rent, so bring your own if you want to join the night dive at Arborek jetty. A delayed SMB and reef hook are also strongly recommended kit to bring with you. Rental items may need to be shared between volunteers during busy periods, so indicate what you need on your booking form to guarantee availability.

Health & safety

Dietary requirements and allergies

Camp cooks three meals a day for everyone. Tell us now and it gets planned for; tell us on arrival and it may not.

I will tell Barefoot about any medical condition, medication or injury that could affect my fitness to dive or my safety in a remote location.

Arborek is a small island. Knowing in advance is what makes it safe.

I understand I must hold travel and diving insurance for the whole expedition.

Both travel insurance (covering cancellations) and scuba diving insurance covering you for the full expedition, diving to 30m, medical evacuation and decompression chamber treatment. This is not negotiable, you won't be allowed to join without it. We recommend Divers Alert Network (DAN), who offer a good combined package.

Emergency contact

Contact name

Their name and how they know you.

Contact number

With the country code.

Passport

We need your passport details to process your application. They go on the Raja Ampat permits and the visa paperwork, so an application cannot be assessed without them.

How they are kept: the number is only ever shown to a signed-in administrator, the scan is stored privately and opened through a link that expires after five minutes, neither is ever put in an email, and both can be deleted on request. How we handle passport data.

Passport number

Place of issue

Expiry date

Passport scan

A photo of the picture page. JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 12 MB. We re-save every upload, which removes the location and camera data your phone writes into it. We cannot accept a PDF — a photo is fine.

Finish

How did you hear about us?

Anything else we should know?

Questions, dates that will not work, someone you are travelling with, a research project you want to build around this.

Payment

A £200 non-refundable deposit must be sent with this form to reserve your place on the expedition. Full balance of your expedition fee must be paid a minimum of 8 weeks before your expedition start date.

Bank Transfer details:

Bank Name: HSBC Bank PLC, 100 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1AN, UK
Acc Name: Barefoot Conservation Limited
Acc Number: 91664751
Sort Code: 40-44-20
IBAN: GB02HBUK40442091664751
Swift Code: HBUKGB4159V

We can process payments via PayPal but a 5.5% PayPal charge is applicable.

Declaration

I have read the terms and conditions and the privacy notice.

Someone will read this and reply by email.