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Eric Douglas

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.
 

Ask an Expert: Is the New Breed of Rebreathers Really Recreational?

Has innovation made rebreathers user-friendly for all divers, or are they still reserved for the pros?

Lessons For Life: Helping Hand?

An experienced diver tries to manage a panicky newer one, with tragic results. Learn from these important Lessons For Life.

Lessons for Life: Panic in Kelp

Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Panicking while diving in kelp and searching for lobster leads to a fatal entanglement.

Night Diving Made Easy

What do you need to know to make your first night dive? Here are 10 tips that will help you stay safe during your next after-hours excursion.

Nearly Blind Diver Finally "Sees" Christ of the Abyss

Gabriel Spataro encounters Key Largo's Christ of the Abyss more than six decades after he helped bring it to the U.S.

Lessons For Life: Know Your Limits

Staying within no-decompression limits doesn't guarantee 100 percent safety.

Lessons For Life: Pride Can Be Deadly

The best equipment won't save you if you don't know how to use it.

Lessons for Life: Safe Cave Diving

Two divers enter a cave and only one comes out. Whose fault was it?

Lessons for Life: Solo Diver Never Resurfaces

Ted couldn’t find a dive buddy who liked to dive as he did, so he dived alone. That was fine with Ted — right up until he realized he wasn’t sure how to get back to the surface.