3389 REVIEW DENIED A repairman on a job involving the construction of a wharf who was injured while repairing a crane on a barge secured by a headline to shore and anchored to the harbor bottom by means of bow and stern anchors did not have a substantial connection in duration and nature to a vessel in navigation and so was not a seaman for purposes of the Jones Act.CitationSPEARS v KAJIMA (Floating Crane) 101 CA4 466 [See: 33 USC 901 etseq, 688; Chandris v Latsis 515 US 347; Gault v Modern 100 CA4 991, T/AT 9/02]
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