In this February 10, 2018 photo, Miskito divers wait to board a boat for a two week fishing trip to harvest sea cucumbers, in Krata, Honduras. Thousands of men across the Mosquitia region of Honduras and Nicaragua depend on lobster and sea cucumber fishing to ease poverty. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 1, 2018 photo, a man bathes in a mangrove swamp in Irlaya, Honduras. Among exotic, tropical vegetation along the Caribbean coast, the Mosquitia region is sprinkled with small fishing villages where residents live in clapboard houses, most with no indoor bathrooms. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 6, 2018 photo, children hold onto to their crafted toy trucks from plastic juice boxes with lids for wheels, in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. A sign of the poverty, boys craft toys from recycled material. For grown-ups, the only option they've found to deal with poverty is diving, no matter the risks. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 1, 2018 photo, Angel Ponce takes a swig of rum, in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. Among exotic, tropical vegetation along the Caribbean coast, the Mosquitia region is sprinkled with small fishing villages. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 10, 2018 photo, Miskito fishermen push a boat onto the shore on Savannah Cay, Honduras, at the end of a fishing trip. Thousands of men across the Mosquitia region of Honduras and Nicaragua depend on lobster and sea cucumber fishing to ease poverty. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 9, 2018 photo, Rudy Emus Alfred, 19, dives for sea cucumbers near Cay Savannah, in the Miskito coast, Honduras. According to Miskito mythology, the mermaid Liwa Mairin punishes divers who over harvest from the sea with what divers call “el golpe” or “fracasar”, also known as the bends. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 9, 2018 photo, a man takes a nap inside a makeshift restaurant in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. With more than 60 per cent of its 9 million population living in poverty, Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and the Mosquitia is one of the most impoverished areas. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this January 27, 2018 photo, women package frozen lobsters to export to the US, in a factory in La Ceiba, Honduras. The lobster industry, which generated $40 million in sales for Honduras in 2017, nearly all of it for the U.S. market. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 5, 2018 photo, supervised by a Honduran Army soldier, students practice their routine they plan to perform in an independence military parade, in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 10, 2018 photo, Miskito divers play a game of cards on a ship's stern as they are transported home after a two week fishing trip, near Savannah Cay, Honduras. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 9, 2018 photo, paralyzed by decompression sickness, lobster diver Misael Banegas Diaz, 49, is lifted by physical therapist Cedrak Waldan Mendoza into a hyperbaric chamber at the hospital in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. Waldan Mendoza said the divers are driven by poverty, and even if injured, they return to the boats. “You run into them in the street and ask them why they're going (back to diving) and they say it's because their kids are hungry”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 2, 2018 photo, Sonia Wills, left, accompanied by relatives, mourns over the coffin that contains the remains of her 31-year-old son Miskito diver Oscar Salomon Charly, during a wake in her home in Cabo Gracias a Dios, Nicaragua. Thousands of men across the Mosquitia region of Honduras and Nicaragua depend on lobster fishing to ease poverty, and hundreds have been stricken with the bends. Some end up paralyzed. Some killed. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 2, 2018 photo, relatives and friends carry the coffin that contains the remains of Miskito diver Oscar Salomon Charly, 31, to be transported via a boat to a nearby cemetery, in Cabo Gracias a Dios, Nicaragua Charly died in Honduras after suffering a severe case of decompression sickness. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 10, 2018 photo, evangelical pastors preach to inmates inside a prison in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 9, 2018 photo, a diver holds onto his catch of lobsters during a fishing journey in the Miskito coast near Cay Savannah, Honduras. A diver makes 75 lempiras ($3) per pound of lobster. An average 10-pound daily haul of lobster is a windfall for people in one of the most impoverished regions of the Americas, so many take the risk, and many suffer for it. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this January 31, 2018 photo, 28-year-old lobster diver Charles “Charly” Melendez puts his hands over his face in frustration as he comes to terms with having to rely on a wheelchair to get around, in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. For a man who always made his living diving, it's a nightmare being confined to a wheelchair. “I still can't stand up by myself”, he said. “I can't sit for a long time; after an hour my body hurts”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this Jan. 30, 2018 photo, Miskito diver Charles “Charly” Melendez, 28, is carried by his 10-year-old son Jason and wife Kenia from their rented room along the shore in Puerto Lempira, Honduras, to a smoother ground for his wheelchair. Melendez said he been diving since he was 16 and had harvested 60 pounds of lobster on the day he was left paralyzed by decompression sickness. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 10, 2018 photo, a diver prepares to plunge into Caribbean waters in the Miskito coast, near Cay Savannah, Honduras, in search of sea cucumbers under a heavy rain. A diver, who makes seven lempiras or about 28 U.S. cents per sea cucumber, will catch anywhere between 10 and 30 in a day. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





This September 4, 2018 photo shows palm trees as the day begins to break in Irlaya, Honduras. With more than 60 per cent of its 9 million population living in poverty, Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and the Mosquitia is one of the most impoverished areas. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 11, 2018 photo, Elvira Mendoza Espinosa, hits a diving tank with a hammer announcing the start of the morning Mass, outside the Moravian church in Kaukira, Honduras. In the Mosquitia, diving permeates everyday life, as it does in Kaukira, one of the villages on the Mosquitia. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 9, 2018 photo, Miskito divers eat a breakfast of rice, beans and bananas before the start of their work day, in Cay Savannah, Honduras. When not in Caribbean waters the divers are lodged in a small wooden house provided by the boat owners. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 6, 2018 photo, Charles Melendez, 5, and his 4-year-old brother Jefferson, play with their father's wheelchair while he rests, in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. The boys' father, a lobster diver, is recovering from decompression sickness which has left him paralyzed from the waist down. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 11, 2018 photo, Miskito divers sleep on hammocks on their last night of a 13-day fishing trip, surrounded by empty oxygen tanks, left, and their catch of sea cucumbers, right lower corner, as they are transported from Cay Savannah to Kaukira, Honduras. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 9, 2018 photo, a worker cleans a batch of lobsters near Cay Savannah, Honduras. After the lobsters are cleaned they are stored in the ship's large freezers. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 2, 2018 photo, dogs eat scraps left by family and friends attending the funeral of Miskito diver Oscar Salomon Charly, in Cabo Gracias a Dios, Nicaragua. The 31-year-old, who was diving for lobster in Honduras, died after he was stricken with a severe case of decompression sickness. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 4, 2018 photo, diver Saul Ronaldo Atiliano, 45, is lifted onto the dock after traveling via boat to Puerto Lempira, Honduras, to receive decompression sickness therapy in a hyperbaric chamber. “The pressure attacked me deep in the water”, said Atiliano, who for 25 years has dived for lobster, most of which winds up in the United States. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this February 7, 2018 photo, Miskito divers stricken with decompression sickness climb into a hyperbaric chamber at the hospital in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. Standard diving techniques call for a gradual ascent to the surface to eliminate the nitrogen that the body's tissues absorb during a dive. But many of the divers of Mosquitia dive deeply, surface quickly and then go back for more, racing to collect as much lobster as possible. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this September 1, 2018 photo, men ride past on their horses, in Irlaya, Honduras. Among exotic, tropical vegetation along the Caribbean coast, the Mosquitia region is sprinkled with small fishing villages where residents live in clapboard houses. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)