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Nicaraguan lobster divers risk lives for `red gold'

Nicaragua is one of the last places where commercial lobster diving is allowed despite tragic results.
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 |  MiamiHerald.com    |   12-25-2011

As many as 5,000 Nicaraguan men -- most of them indigenous Miskitos -- risk their lives each year in Nicaragua's commercial lobster industry, taking on the increasingly perilous task of plucking ''red gold'' from the Caribbean. Amid widespread overexploitation, divers are heading farther out into the high seas, and diving deeper to bring in the harvest.

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