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Eric Douglas

Eric Douglas began diving in 1990 in West Virginia . He 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 he 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.

He is currently the Director of Training for Divers Alert Network (DAN), an international scuba diving safety organization where he develops dive safety training programs. He also frequently teaches 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, he has written thousands of stories and has traveled the world with his cameras in hand. Eric currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, the home of Duke University and DAN, with his wife, two daughters and three dogs.