Author and Scuba Expert Nancy Ferguson Featured In Online Interview at PageOneLit.com

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) June 11, 2005 -- Author and Scuba Expert Nancy Ferguson was recently interviewd at PageOneLit.com.

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.

A portion of the interview with Nancy Ferguson may be read below, and the entire interview may be read at http://www.pageonelit.com/interviews/NFerguson.html

PageOneLit: 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.....

PageOneLit: 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..

PageOneLit: Are any of the adventures in "Black Coral" and "Dark Waters" based on your actual experiences in scuba diving? If so, what?

Nancy Ferguson: I was shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Philippines (Apo) but without the pirates! The cove setting in Greece I describe in Black Coral is real and there actually was a body found in a cave in the Bahamas.

PageOneLit: In the midst of writing novels about scuba diving, how did it transpire that you wrote a novel about Hollywood, "Alana?"

Nancy Ferguson: I have no idea.

PageOneLit: Tell me about the character Alana Paige. How did you create this character? What character research did you do? Is Alana based on anyone you know?

Nancy Ferguson:ALANA is strictly a fantasy. I know no one like her. But I'd like to. There was a lot of research for Alana. The historical details are factual, or at least as factual as I was able to determine.

Read the entire interview at http://www.pageonelit.com/interviews/NFerguson.html

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