LXD 024 : Eric Douglas – Author and Diving Safety Expert

Retrieved from ScubaGuru - Expert Advice & Best Practices for Scuba Diving Professionals Eric Douglas – Author of the famous Mike Scott diving thriller novels, and diving safety expert In this podcast episode I chat with Eric Douglas. Eric Douglas grew up watching “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” and dreamed of diving with Captain Cousteau. He became a diver, and then a dive instructor.  With his journalism degree Eric combined professional diving with writing and contributed articles to diving magazines. That landed him at the headquarters of PADI where he assisted in the development of their training materials.  Along the way he embraced health and safety courses and became and EMT and a DMT – a diving medical technician.  That opened doors for him to join Divers Alert Network in their training department.  On the side Eric was writing nonfiction works on lobster divers, war veterans, and cancer survivors, and since 2009 he has written the extremely popular Lessons for Life column for Scuba Diving Magazine. One of my favorites. But then there are his epic novels.  Through his fictional works, Eric takes readers on adventures of their own. His stories have everything thriller junkies crave; action, adventure and intrigue, all set against a backdrop of beautiful locations, the ocean, and scuba diving. The fast-paced stories are exciting and inspiring to divers and future divers. He has authored eight novels and two novellas in the Mike Scott thriller series: Cayman Cowboys, Flooding Hollywood, Guardians’ Keep, Wreck of the Huron, Heart of the Maya, Return to Cayman, Oil and Water, The 3rd Key: Sharks in the Water, Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters and the latest Water Crisis: Day Zero. He has also written a series of dive thriller short stories set on the fictional Withrow Key in the Florida Keys. He authored four children’s stories, collected in the book Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories. Eric currently serves as the Associate Producer for the West Virginia Public Broadcasting show Inside Appalachia. Items in this Podcast 30 years in divingJournalism majorWorked at PADI and Divers Alert NetworkFavorite dive site is not internationalWho he taught how to dive from Baywatch Mike Scott novels – great fictional reads for diversWho is Mike Scott based on? Resources BooksByEric.com Sponsor Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Adventures Thanks for Listening! Thank you for joining me again. Do you want to give a shout out to our guest on this podcast? Leave a note in the comments section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for The League of Extraordinary Divers podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! And, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. The post LXD 024 : Eric Douglas – Author and Diving Safety Expert appeared first on ScubaGuru.