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.
Getting tangled in a buoy line sends a nervous diver over the edge, with disastrous results.
A cardiac event at depth highlights the importance of training for diving physically, not just mentally.
Complacency leads a diver to start a dive with only reserve gas. It does not take long for the dive to spin out of control.
Lying about plans and experience to get into a cave costs two divers their lives.
Descending despite discomfort becomes the ultimate disaster for one inexperienced diver.
A rusty diver gets entangled in kelp when task overload separates leads to buddy separation.
Tragedy strikes when a diver forgets to watch his air levels while helping his buddy capture underwater photos.
A liveaboard diver maxes out his bottom time for days in a row, landing him in the hospital with decompression sickness. His dive buddy experiences no symptoms, showing why it’s best to dive conservatively — you never know how your body will react.
A diver ignores a DCS symptoms, including a rash—an increasingly common sign of being bent.