Eric Douglas is an author and journalist known for his thriller novels with scuba diving, environment and ocean themes. He has been a dive instructor and a diver medic and worked for PADI, DAN and has written training articles for Scuba Diving since 2008.
He is also documentarian writing stories about Moskito Indians who scuba dive for lobster and photographing Russia after the Soviet Union broke up.
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Eric Douglas Articles
Learn important scuba diving safety rules from a story about a diver dying while trying to set a personal record.
"Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters," a scuba diving themed thriller, is not available via audiobook on iTunes and Audible.
Scuba diving safety tips for identifying decompression illness, DCI, and using rental gear on vacation.
Another case study in our Dive Training Series "Lessons For Life": Panic, claustrophobia and poor decision-making lead to a dive fatality.
DAN's annual report on dive accidents highlights four factors common to fatal accidents. The good news: They're all preventable. Our dive-training tips.
See what scuba diving lessons we can learn from this fatal accident: an inexperienced, out-of-shape diver dies close to shore.
One scuba diver pushes his limits on a liveaboard trip and suffers from decompression illness as a result.
Being unprepared for wreck penetration spells disaster for a showoff dive instructor.
An experienced lobster diver ignores the basics and pays the price.