WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
This is an action brought for negligence under the Jones Act and for unseaworthiness under general maritime law involving an alleged rescue attempt by appellant's decedent of a fellow employee on the Chesapeake Bay. During that attempt, the would-be rescuer was swept by the waves from his boat and drowned. We hold that the trial court's failure to give a proper rescue charge to the jury constitutes plain error and requires reversal despite...
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