Author Nancy Ferguson Featured In Online Interview at BooksAndAuthors.net

With over thirty years of scuba diving under her weight belt, Nancy looks back on a lifetime of adventure that includes being shipwrecked in the Philippines, riding a manta ray in the Sea of Cortez and swimming with the humpback whales in Hawaii. She has explored oceans throughout the world and these experiences have provided the foundation for her vivid and realistic descriptions of the beauties of the sea. Though she briefly departed from writing scuba adventures to create a novel about Hollywood, Alana, she has now returned to the subject she loves best. Dark Waters is the result. She has also created a book of underwater photography, called Bright Waters. Nancy is the great grandmother of six, a cancer survivor, who lives and writes in Ventura, California.

(PRWEB) April 10, 2005 -- BooksAndAuthors.net: Where did you grow up and were reading and writing always a part of your life?

Nancy Ferguson: Midland, Texas and Chicago. Reading, yes, but I didn't start to write until I was an adult.

BooksAndAuthors.net:Why do you write?

Nancy Ferguson: It became a compulsion.

BooksAndAuthors.net:I understand that you have over 30 years of scuba diving experience. Talk a little about your adventures in scuba diving. Are you still diving today?

Nancy Ferguson: Aside from the travel experiences attached to dive trips (New Guinea, Bali, Thailand, British Virgin Is., etc, the MOST exciting was swimming with the humpbacks in Hawaii. But also, riding a 15 ft. manta ray in the Sea of Cortez, diving the WWII wrecks and swimming with sharks in Truk Lagoon, hugging a moray eel in the Cayman Islands and simply being underwater to watch the creatures, from an 8 ft baraccuda to a half inch goby. If someone says let's go to Fiji, I'd grab the chance because it's beautiful.....

BooksAndAuthors.net:What inspired you (beyond your obvious love of diving) to write your scuba adventure novels, "Black Coral" and "Dark Waters?"

Nancy Ferguson: What had been written about diving exaggerated the dangers. I wanted to show the beauty instead of the risks, which, in any case, are miminal..

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