{"id":113,"date":"2009-04-16T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-04-19T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:38:46","slug":"april-idc-set-to-begin-on-koh-tao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/april-idc-set-to-begin-on-koh-tao\/","title":{"rendered":"April IDC Set to Begin on Koh Tao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Songkran is upon us, our Course Directors are frantically trying  to prepare for the <strong>IDC<\/strong> while at the same time staying dry!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Songkran  Koh Tao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/images\/IDC-Practice.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"songkran Koh Tao\" \/><br \/>\nTomorrow marks  the Thai New Year, which is celebrated with a\u00a0 massive free-for-all  water festival.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, loads of photocopying and transferring  of computer equipment\u00a0is being done\u00a0on the last day before Thailand  erupts in a\u00a0water and beer-soaked frenzy. It&#8217;s always a great laugh, but  make sure you leave your phones and cameras inside. The <strong>underwater  videographers<\/strong>, with their waterproof video housings will be out  to\u00a0document the topside madness and we&#8217;ll be posting photos in a few  days.<\/p>\n<p>The Instructor Course will begin on the 14th\u00a0with 12 IDC  candidates from\u00a07 different countries around the world.\u00a0Two weeks of  academic, confined and open water presentations will be completed before  the <strong>PADI Instructor<\/strong> examiners show up on Koh Tao for three days  of assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand Gap Internships wishes them all the best  of luck!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Songkran is upon us, our Course Directors are frantically trying to prepare for the IDC while at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22,11,12,21,23,17,19,277,15],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-internships","tag-diving-internships-thailand","tag-diving-koh-tao","tag-gap-year-thailand","tag-koh-tao","tag-padi","tag-padi-idc","tag-padi-instructor","tag-scuba-diving-internships","tag-thailand-gap-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}