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.
A diver decides breathing pure oxygen is all she needs to address DCS symptoms, impeading proper treatment.
A diver ignores nerves to avoid losing money on an expensive dive, a risky choice that leads to a drowning incident he was lucky to survive.
DCI finds a spearfisher who puts the pursuit of a prize catch over his own safety.
Disaster strikes when a spearfisher neglects to watch his air supply underwater.
Scuba diving without any training or understanding of dive equipment ends in disaster.
When a diver fails to handle her anxiety, blind panic turns a routine training dive into tragedy.
Ignoring mild joint pain sends a diver from the airport to a decompression chamber.
A freediving accident drives home why you always need to dive with a buddy.
A likely case of immersion pulmonary edema leads to a dive emergency