¥Step-up course fee list (per person)
Price
PADI Advanced Diving Course (AOW) ¥60,280
If you choose Night Diving ¥76,780
AOW training + Various Specialties (SP’s) Please contact us as this willvary depending on the AOW dive and SP selected
Price Includes:
Course fees, teaching materials, boarding fees, insurance fees, application fees, facility usage fees
What’s not included in the price:
Your own travel expenses, rental equipment, underwater light, lunch (separate ¥1,100)
Conditions of Participation
- PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent C-Card holder from another organization
- Anyone over 12 years old who is physically and mentally healthy is eligible, with no upper age limit (12-14 years old are Junior Open Water Divers)
- Healthy people who have nothing checked on the Diver Medical / Participant Checklist
- If any of the following items apply to you, you will need to submit a medical certificate. Without this certificate, you will not be able to participate in diving
- If you cancel on the day, 100% of the fee will be charged
- All participants are required to submit a medical history certificate
- Please do not plan to fly the day after the license course
- A device that can be used to view E-Learning
- A set of teaching materials sent in advance
- License C-Card, logbook (Please bring your training records if you have them) *Participants from other organizations are welcome. Do not forget your license card
- Your diving equipment and underwater camera
- Swimsuit, change of clothes, motion sickness medicine if necessary, towels (useful to have several)
- Please wear a swimsuit, clothes and footwear that you don’t mind getting wet. T-shirt and shorts are also ok
- UV protection items (hat, sunglasses, long sleeves)
- Please bring something to wear over your clothes in winter
The official name is PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (AOW for short)
The AOW manual consists of 16 types of adventure diving
You will become AOW certified once you have completed three adventure dives and the required underwater navigation and deep diving
There are three types of dives to choose from. You can choose from the following:
(There are other adventure diving options available, but the ones available on Ishigaki Island are listed below)
Naturalist Underwater Navigation Fish identification
More Comfortable Neutral Buoyancy All Year Round
Boat Diving PPB Dry Suit Diving
Digital Camera Night Sea Special Gas
Underwater Photo Night Diver Enriched Air Nitrox
Riding the Tide Deep places Efficient and Long
Drift Diving Deep Multi Level Diving
Nitrox Neutral Buoyancy Fish Identification Underwater Photo Boat Diving
Course Features and Comparison
Up to 18m with a buddy Up to 30m with a buddy
You can dive at 80% You can dive 100% of Ishigaki Island’s sites of Ishigaki Island’s sites
You can dive at You can dive at
80% of the world’s sites 100% of the world’s sites
Stay close to your buddy Buddies swim freely together
PADI/SP restrictions apply All PADI/SP courses available
Rank up restrictions apply Rescue rank can be increased
Improve your diving knowledge, skills and experience
Diving is a serious hobby
Diving becomes more fun Diving becomes more fun
I want to meet new people I want to meet new people
Manta Ray You can go to Manta Point! You can go to Manta Point!
License Expiration Date Lifetime Activity Lifetime Activity
(Health restrictions only) (Health restrictions only)
- I want to dive without restrictions in the oceans of the world
- One step at a time to become a professional
- I want to meet many people
- I want to acquire diving knowledge
- I want learn about diving equipment
- I want to learn diving equipment
- I want to expand my diving repertoire
- I want to master diving
- Each dive in the advanced course is credited to each SP course, so if you are interested, you can proceed to each SP and get certified
*Adventure Diver courses (minimum one day) are also available. Please contact us for more information
Schedule
The Adventure Diver course required a minimum of one day, while the advanced course requires a minimum of two days.
*The course can start in the afternoon after arriving on Ishigaki Island
About Pre-Learning
Please create an account with PADI, log in and prepare in advance.
After your reservation is confirmed, we can send the e-learning code required for the course.
Alternatively you can purchase the e-learning directly from PADI after creating an account
- Check diving dates, availability, flight information, and hotel availability before making a reservation
- To start your diving course without any worries, please ask any questions you may have. That is the first step (070-5537-0115 info@marine-stars-japan.com)
- Check beforehand if you have anything checked on the Diver Medical / Participant Checklist. If any of the following items apply to you, you will need to submit a medical certificate. If you do not have a medical certificate, you will not be able to dive
- If you cancel on the day 100% of the fee will be charged
- All participants are required to submit a medical history certificate
- Please make a reservation using the reservation form or by phone
- After your reservation is confirmed, please transfer the license training fee deposit of ¥20,000 per person as an application fee
- We will send you the e-learning code required for the course
- Please create an account, log in and prepare in advance
- If you have not completed the preliminary work, you will not be able to be certified for the course
- Let’s head to Ishigaki Island and enjoy the step up course
- We will pick you up form your accommodation or a location of your choice
- We will contact you the evening before to confirm pick up time
- Fill out the application form, have a health check, and prepare your rental equipment
- Equipment setup, explanation of the vessel and precautions to take when sailing
- After an explanation of today’s points, team division and schedule, we set sail
- After the briefing, we start the first dive
- Enjoy the underwater world for 45 to 60 minutes
- If you have less than 30 dives under your belt or are a blank diver, we recommend the refresher course
- You will do one the dives you have selected
- After the briefing we start
- Enjoy the underwater world for 45 to 60 minutes
- Depending on the sea conditions and the location, we will have lunch on a nearby remote island or in a place with calm waves
- Relax and take a break in the calm waters
- You will do one of the dives you have selected
- After the briefing we start
- Enjoy the underwater world for 45 to 60 minutes
- After washing the equipment, the staff member in charge will record the log
- As long as we don’t return to port too late, we will generally keep a log every day. We will provide explanations of the images we take and the creatures we observe. We also have a wide selection of illustrated guides and reference materials available in our shop
- After logging, we will send you to your accommodation
- Please settle the bill on the last day
- Obtaining an advanced level will take you to the endless world of ocean fun…
We hope that your diving life will continue for a long time
- A temporary card can be issued on the day of certification. You can also dive on Iriomote island the next day
- The license card will arrive at your home in 2 to 3 weeks
After obtaining the license I finally got my long-awated license!
So what should we do now??
If you step into a new world and don’t know what to do, all your hard work and time will be wasted.
There are many people who don’t know what to do or where to go in the new world they have come to.
One year from now or five or ten years from now
“Looking back on today, I got my C-card and nothing happened after that…”
“I’ve forgotten everything…”
Let’s think about what we can do in the future to prevent this from happening
After Acquisition Part 1
Fun Diving If you have time, we recommend you join our Fun Diving Course
(additional fees apply) The more you dive, the faster you will improve
After Acquisition Part 2
Continue various adventure After the AOW course, we also recommend various adventure courses
diving or move on to an You can choose and dive in adventure dives that out have not yet
SP course taken, such as night diving or multi-level diving, which are listed in the AOW manual
Also if you are interested in the dives you have selected and experienced during the AOW course, you can proceed directly to each SP course and obtain certification! This will be credited towards each SP course, so you can obtain certification in fewer dives than usual.
(Please contact us for details)
After Acquistion Part 3
Rescue Diver PADI OW or above with a gap of less than 3 months
Step Up You can obtain the license on any date you like but YDS Field holds rescue campaigns every June and November
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