Plaintiff qualified as a seaman under the Jones Act (46 USC § 30104 [a], formerly 46 USC Appendix § 688 [a]). He was employed by SPB, a marine construction company, in connection with the installation of a sewer main under Eastchester Bay, from Throgs Neck to City Island, a distance of approximately a mile and a half. Using barges equipped with cranes, plaintiff's crew drove vertical interlocking steel sheets into the seabed to define a trench area, a second barge...
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