I began diving in 1990 in West Virginia, then became a dive instructor in 1998 while working for the world's largest dive training organization, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) in Rancho Santa Margarita, California . There I helped develop training materials and served as the Assistant Editor of The Undersea Journal , a publication read by more than 150,000 professional divers worldwide.
I'm currently the Director of Training for Divers Alert Network (DAN), an international scuba diving safety organization where I develop dive safety training programs. I also frequently teach those programs to dive instructors and instructor trainers so they can teach them to divers.
Trained as a journalist, with a degree from Marshall University, I have written thousands of stories and have traveled the world with my cameras in hand. I currently live in Durham, North Carolina, the home of Duke University and DAN, with my wife, two daughters and three dogs.
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Action, adventure, intrigue and the environment all come into play in this novel by author Eric Douglas. Set on Grand Cayman, a diving must-visit for many divers, this book highlights the beautiful locations and touches on the potential for abuse as the environment and development fall into conflict. Diving in Grand Cayman, magazine photographer Mike Scott notices a series of unusual occurrences including the death of a girl, a protest of new development and the systematic destruction of coral reefs. It all comes together when armed men warn him away from a dive site. Investigating, he witnesses a specially-equipped submarine destroying the reef. Before he is able to report the destruction to the authorities, he and his dive buddy, Kelly, are kidnapped – along with Kelly's girlfriend Tanya. Friends rescue Mike and Tanya, but the assassin gets away with Kelly, taking him to an underwater diving bell to die. Now it's a race against time to save Kelly and bring down the greedy developer putting his own wealth before the beauty of the island and the welfare of the people.
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Criminals in Los Angeles are using a dive operation to smuggle illegal drugs into the City of Angels . Or are they up to something more sinister? It is up to photographer Mike Scott to figure it out. And he has to do it before disaster strikes the heart of the city. Beginning as a simple photo shoot to capture glamorous images of an actress enjoying the sport she loves–scuba diving around Santa Catalina Island–things quickly turn serious. Before it all ends, the two will face danger and fanaticism in the Hollywood Hills.
Flooding Hollywood pits photographer Mike Scott against a group of fanatics bent on destroying Hollywood. The story begins with Mike Scott on a photo shoot with up and coming actress Diane Taylor. They decide to combine some personal recreation with the shoot and spend a couple days scuba diving in an around Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of southern California. On a dive, Scott witnesses another diver picking up stray packages underwater. He doesn't think much about it the first day, but when it happens two days in a row, it gets his mind going. Assuming the divers are smuggling drugs into the city, Scott tips off the police. That act of curiosity and initiative places Scott on a collision course with fanatics bent on imposing their will on the city of Los Angeles. Set underwater around Catalina Island and around the city of Los Angeles, Flooding Hollywood takes readers on a ride from LA Harbor to the Hollywood hills on a fast-paced ride of intrigue.
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Co-authored by Dan Orr and Eric Douglas
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Take a look at my short stories online at Scuba Diving Magazine: http://www.scubadiving.com/short_stories
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