Michael D. Fox v. Taylor Diving & Salvage Company

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Michael Fox appeals an adverse judgment on his Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, and related claims resulting from a physical injury incurred while working on a submarine pipe alignment rig (SPAR). He challenges, inter alia, the holding as a matter of law that he was not a seaman for the purposes of the Jones Act. We affirm the district court.

I. BACKGROUND

Michael Fox worked for Taylor Diving & Salvage Company as a. Shop Job Coordinator in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Fox had an office onshore at the Taylor facility on the St. Jobshaven pier in Rotterdam and lived…