JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
This case presents for our decision a narrow question of first impression, one for whose answer we must gingerly navigate through the channel left by the Moragne-Gaudet-Higginbotham triumvirate of recent Supreme Court pronouncements on the admiralty. Does the surviving spouse of a seaman have a cause of action for wrongful death based on unseaworthiness pursuant to the Death on the High Seas Act where the decedent prior to his...
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