For Nicaragua's Lobstermen, Deadly Dives Are All Too Common – Repeating Islands
“God, help me one more time,” pleads the lobsterman, Edmundo Stanley Antonio. “Accompany me in this water.” There are a lot of worries bundled into that simple appeal. That the makeshift air hose he’s tethered to doesn’t spring a leak. That the air compressor at the surface doesn’t fail. That his innate awareness of distance and time — he doesn’t have a watch or a depth gauge — is better than the time he surfaced too quickly from about 150 feet down and got battered by decompression sickness, which left him partly paralyzed for a year. Mr. Stanley, 33, still feels pain in ...
Source: repeatingislands.com