Speculation
Hello,
I can't be sure how they're doing it, but it appears that they made an eyesplice with one piece, and then "sidespliced" the other one on. For the latter, you start the splice for the second piece a foot or so below the eyesplice, and tuck up towards that splice, until the two splices butt into each other. It might be better still if the sidesplice was started several feet away from the eyesplice, to remove the stress riser.
There are a few ways to sidesplice; in this case the structure would start exactly like an eyesplice, just with a separate piece of rope.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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