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Chapter 4 of Going Down With the Ship
Going Down with the Ship By Eric Douglas Chapter 4 The sound of the explosive charges rippling across the quiet water propelled Jackson Pauley into motion. The flashbacks that helped him put together all the pieces and realize where Andrea was being kept took only milliseconds. He immediately turned and ran for his houseboat and the Boston Whaler tied up beside it. Within minutes he had the power boat’s twin engines fired up and was racing across the water. When Jackson went to the proposed sink...
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Chapter 3 of Going Down With the Ship
Going Down with the Ship By Eric Douglas Chapter 3 As soon as Andrea Perez and Jackson Pauley arrived back at the dock, Andrea took off again, heading straight for city hall. They had just discovered that the planned location for the new artificial reef, the USS Destroyer Beauregard, was not a barren patch of sand after all, but actually a living carpet of coral reef. She wanted answers. She now knew for sure that something was going on with the artificial reef project and the preparations for t...
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Chapter 2 of Going Down with the Ship
In January of 2009, I will be debuting a new dive adventure short story on Dive Buddy. Read where it all started! Going Down with the Ship By Eric Douglas Chapter 2 The jukebox in the corner thumped out a country tune that Jackson Pauley barely heard and cared about even less. He was hungry. He wanted his food and he wanted to go home. Even though he had successfully avoided the local TV reporter who had questions about his actions on board the dive boat, he had still spent the day talking to po...
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New Short Story, debuting on DiveBuddy
In January 2009, I will release a new diving adventure short story, right here on the pages of DiveBuddy. It will come out in serial format, one chapter a week for nine weeks. The story is set on Withrow Key in the Florida Keys. Where is Withrow Key? Anywhere you want it to be. To get prepared for the release event, you might want to read the three stories based on the tiny island so far. The first story was Going Down With the Ship in August 2005. It was released in four installment on the Scub...
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Dive adventure novel featured in English text book
Pearson Education, the world’s largest publisher of educational textbooks, recently published the latest edition in its Connect series. These English textbooks are used throughout the Caribbean to educate island children, using local examples and scenarios to make the lessons more relevant. In this latest Connect text book, authors Orville and Vicki Aimey and Amaral and Samuel Soyer used an interview with Eric Douglas, originally published by the Cayman Compass, Cayman’s National Newspaper, to i...
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Dive show in Russia? In February?
One of the unique things about my job is that I get to travel internationally from time to time, exploring diving from other perspectives. In a few weeks, I’ll be seeing it from an entirely new perspective. In the middle of February, I will be attending the Golden Dolphin Dive Show in Moscow, Russia. I’ll be working the show in support of DAN Europe, but expect to make some interesting contacts to learn about diving throughout Russia and the Black Sea. However, attending this dive show is just p...
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Free Diving Adventure Story
The amazing thing about scuba diving is while it is an exciting pastime in its own right—there is nothing cooler than playing superman while you fly effortlessly over a coral reef on a drift dive, for example—it also opens doors to so many other exciting things. You can explore shipwrecks, hunt for treasure, watch fish, see what a frozen lake looks like from under the ice or slalom in and out of a kelp forest. For me, diving inspires me to tell stories. I get to let my imagination run wild when ...
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