PER CURIAM:
The appellants brought this action under the Jones Act and general maritime law to recover for the drowning death of their son, Andrew Derouen, who had been employed as a deck hand aboard the M/V Cavalier, a vessel owned by the appellee, Vaughn Marine, Inc. On February 15, 1969, shortly after daybreak, the Cavalier, pushing three loaded barges, was approaching a fleet of barges in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge. The captain instructed the deck hands...
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