{"id":153,"date":"2010-05-30T22:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-05-31T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T08:03:23","slug":"koh-tao-instructor-candidates-complete-the-padi-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/koh-tao-instructor-candidates-complete-the-padi-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Koh Tao Instructor Candidates Complete the PADI Exam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mayie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mayie.jpg\" alt=\"Koh Tao IDC Group- Success on Koh Tao!\" width=\"458\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mayie.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mayie-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Instructor Group Completes the PADI Instructor Exam!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just completed the May Instructor Exam on Koh Tao and the crew from Thailand Gap Internships would like to congratulate all 17 of our latest <a title=\"thailand-Instructor-Gapyear-Internships-IDC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/scuba-diving-internships\/dive-instructor-internship.html\">Instructor Candidates<\/a>! We&#8217;re sure that you&#8217;ll all continue to make a great contribution to the dive industry.<\/p>\n<p>I especially want to thank Valentijn and Yvonne who have been providing us with some fantastic photos of their experience throughout the course. They&#8217;ve been updating their blog with reports about people&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/gopro-divetalk.com\/guest-blogs\/2-guest\/57-2405-padi-course-director-darius-about-mayas-idc-\"> experiences on Koh Tao&#8217;s most successful IDC.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4649938883_f26ff802c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4649938883_f26ff802c1.jpg\" alt=\"New PADI Instructor, Yvonne, Practicing Rescue\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4649938883_f26ff802c1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4649938883_f26ff802c1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvonne&#39;s Rescue Assessment for the PADI Instructor Exam!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had a great afternoon of celebrating at Johnny Specs&#8217; Reef Bar in Mae Haad, before moving down to the Buddha Bar in Chalok Baan Khao for some late evening revelry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4650552782_b242daec19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4650552782_b242daec19.jpg\" alt=\"Seb, New Koh Tao PADI Instructor\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4650552782_b242daec19.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4650552782_b242daec19-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4650552782_b242daec19-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seb Celebrates his new PADI Instructor Status!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, I conducted a <strong>Tec diving<\/strong> introduction and the <strong>Enriched Air Instructor Course <\/strong>with most of the guys from the program.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;ll begin the <strong>Search and Recovery and Deep Diver Specialties.<\/strong> Many will continue with the Master Scuba Diving internship and they&#8217;ll get real work experience team teaching with our staff. It&#8217;s been so much fun working with this group of people and I&#8217;m sad to see my role ending.<\/p>\n<p>Now for a few days off relaxing on the beach before we begin the June 2010 Instructor Development Course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just completed the May Instructor Exam on Koh Tao and the crew from Thailand Gap Internships would like to congratulate all 17 of our latest Instructor Candidates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33,60,42,25,61,21,39,19,277,59,15],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-internships","tag-diving-internships","tag-enriched-air","tag-gap-internships","tag-idc","tag-instructor-development-course","tag-koh-tao","tag-koh-tao-idc","tag-padi-instructor","tag-scuba-diving-internships","tag-tec-diving","tag-thailand-gap-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}