Hugh C. Ardleigh v. Schlumberger Limited

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed Hugh Ard-leigh’s Jones Act claim because he was not a “seaman” doing a substantial part of his work on a “fleet of vessels.” We affirm.

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Schlumberger, Ltd., the Appellee, provided wireline services to oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico. A wireline operation gathers data from partially drilled oil and gas wells. By lowering sensitive geophysical instruments into the well, the crew can obtain data important to production. Schlumberger sold its service in individual wireline jobs, dispatching a crew to the well on request.

Depend…