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Today on Too Opinionated we talk with author Eric Douglas!

Eric Douglas spent his childhood Sunday nights watching \u201cThe Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau\u201d and dreamed of diving alongside the captain.

He became a diver, and then a dive instructor, and a diver medic, meeting his goals and pursuing a life of adventure and travel. In his diving career, he worked for\xa0PADI,\xa0Divers Alert Network\xa0and has been the\xa0Lessons for Life\xa0columnist for Scuba Diving Magazine since 2009.

He authors the Mike Scott thriller series: Cayman Cowboys,\xa0Flooding Hollywood,\xa0Guardians\u2019 Keep,\xa0Wreck of the Huron,\xa0Heart of the Maya,\xa0Return to Cayman,\xa0Oil and Water,\xa0The 3rd Key: Sharks in the Water,\xa0Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters\xa0and the latest\xa0Water Crisis: Day Zero.

He also written a series of diving short stories set on the fictional\xa0Withrow Key.\xa0He authored four children\u2019s stories, collected in the book\xa0Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories.

The inspirational biography\xa0Dive-abled: The Leo Morales Story\xa0is available through Best Publishing and he and former DAN President Dan Orr co-authored the scuba diving reference book\xa0Scuba Diving Safety.

After completing a program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Eric jumped into documentary work. He has worked in\xa0Russia,\xa0Honduras\xa0and most recently in his home state of West Virginia, featuring the oral histories of West Virginia war veterans in the documentary\xa0West Virginia Voices of War and the companion book Common Valor\xa0and the FestivALL Oral History Project that led to the\xa0Memories of the Valley\xa0documentary.

Eric\u2019s most recent documentary is\xa0Batter Up, Baseball In Charleston, an hour-long radio program that aired on the West Virginia Public Broadcasting network. He currently serves as the Assistant News Director for\xa0West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

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