John I. Marvin v. Central Gulf Lines, Inc., Formerly Central Gulf Steamship Corporation

GEE, Circuit Judge:

John I. Maryin, an experienced, able-bodied seaman, was a crewman on Central Gulf’s S/S GREEN SPRINGS when the ship docked at Pusan, South Korea, on January 17, 1972. The GREEN SPRINGS was secured by bow and stern lines before it was decided that the ship was too far forward and should be moved some distance astern. Accordingly, the bow line was slacked and the stern line was moved to a bollard about 150 feet astern of the ship’s original mooring point; from this bollard the line, an eight-inch hawser, 1 ran through the starboard bulwark of the ship, out onto the deck,…