Nicaraguan Lobster Divers: Deadly Depths for Survival

Along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, the global appetite for lobster is sustained by some of the most dangerous labor on earth. In the impoverished, largely Indigenous community of Puerto Cabezas, divers descend ever deeper with faulty equipment and little training, risking paralysis or death from decompression sickness in order to survive. In this episode, we follow the story of Edmundo Stanley Antonio, a fisherman who returned to the water after a near-fatal accident, and examine how overfishing, weak enforcement, and political inertia have trapped hundreds of men in a brutal economy of risk. As laws meant to protect divers stall and alternative livelihoods remain scarce, the story exposes a stark choice faced by many in the region: risk death at sea, or face hunger on land.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/world/nicaragua-lobsters-fishing.html