Bud Werner Memorial Library

The harrowing story of the indigenous Miskito lobster divers.

A film by Josh Wolff

Finalist at the 2012 Intenational Wildlife Film Festival!

About the film
My Village, My Lobster is the powerful, harrowing and shocking story of the indigenous Miskito lobster divers along Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast who risk their lives diving for the region’s most lucrative resource – the Caribbean spiny lobster, the vast majority of which ends up in the United States.

Commercial lobster diving is the Coast’s largest industry, accounting for over $40 million annually and employing more than 5,000 Nicaraguans, most of whom are indigenous Miskito Indians. Over the past 30 years, thousands of Miskito divers have become paralyzed and hundreds more have died due to decompression sickness, a diving-related condition commonly known as the bends.
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Through the voices of Miskito lobster divers and their families, as well as boat owners, captains, and doctors, My Village, My Lobster tells the story of an industry and a community in crisis.
 

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Run time: 60 min.

WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.