{"id":13,"date":"2010-04-04T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-04-19T02:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:34:03","slug":"thailand-gap-internships-new-opportunities-for-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/thailand-gap-internships-new-opportunities-for-divers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Gap Internships- New Opportunities for Divers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we roll into the hottest part of the year, the weather has been an  absolute scorcher, but the diving remains good. It won&#8217;t be long until  the giants of the sea, the whalesharks, make their way past Koh Tao on  their migratory routes.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and I have just finished the new  group of IDC candidates on Koh Tao and they all experienced success on  the <a title=\"kohtao-thailand-padi-instructor-internships\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/scuba-diving-internships\/dive-instructor-internship.html\">PADI Instructor<\/a> exam. Yesterday, we began the <strong>MSDT internship<\/strong> with an introduction to  technical diving with our friends on the MV Trident. Today we&#8217;ll be  doing the Enriched Air (Nitrox) Instructor course along with the Deep  Instructor training.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"gap-year-kohtao-instructor-thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/images\/april001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gap-year-kohtao-instructor-thailand\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Staff Instructors Roman and Shayne. New PADI  Instructors- Reuben, Chris, Graham, Kristien, Gao, Malin, Dan, Shifa,  Chen, Lydia and me&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really excited about the upcoming  <strong>Cave Diving Trip<\/strong> to <strong>Khao Sok National Park<\/strong>. Cave Diving  definitely isn&#8217;t for the fainthearted! It&#8217;s something I did a bit of  ages ago in Mexico and loved, but then more-or-less forgot about. It  turns out that some of the top cave diving in the world has been laying  untouched just a half day&#8217;s journey away. The techies in the area have  just started getting involved in the last year or so and are HUGELY  impressed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"cave-diving-thailand-internships\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/images\/april002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cave-diving-thailand-internships\" \/><em><br \/>\nKhao Sok National Park- Possibly, Asia&#8217;s New Cave  Diving Hub!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be going with a few of the interns to scope  it out and hope to start offering cave diving packages on Thailand Gap  Year Internships soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"khaosok-cavediving-thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/images\/april003\" border=\"0\" alt=\"khaosok-cavediving-thailand\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Accommodation  for the cave diving trips&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"THAILAND-cave-diving\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/images\/april004\" border=\"0\" alt=\"THAILAND-cave-diving\" \/><em><br \/>\nInside  the caves in Khao Sok<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other news, Tom is just beginning  his Freediving course today with Monica, Steph and Declan are on Day 3  of their BSAC Professional HD Underwater Videographer course, and  Riccardo and Mikeala are just finishing off their video internship.  Irish Dave&#8217;s just finished his Rescue course and begun the Divemaster  training. Erik&#8217;s taking a bit of time completing his PADI Divemaster  course and is making money on the side as a professional photographer-  he was just commissioned by PADI to do a photo shoot with some of the  local dive girls in the new PADI bikinis. We&#8217;ve also retained him to  shoot some photos from the<strong> Muay Thai<\/strong> events.<\/p>\n<p>The Muay Thai  interns are hard at work. Yesterday, Doyle made his way to the island.  Sam has taken a break- something to do with falling off his motorbike-  and Jay will be starting his training shortly.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, the  crew from TGI are full steam ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we roll into the hottest part of the year, the weather has been an absolute scorcher, but the diving [&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":[14,11,12,16,15,13],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-internships","tag-cave-diving","tag-diving-koh-tao","tag-gap-year-thailand","tag-msdt","tag-thailand-gap-internships","tag-whale-shark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}