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Three Men Died in a Safety Drill — When the Equipment Meant to Save Lives Becomes What Kills If you are reading this because someone you love was on that lifeboat — or because you work on an offshore rig and you need to understand what happened off the Terengganu-Pahang coast — we want you to hear something first. An emergency evacuation drill is supposed to be the safest version of a dangerous thing. The crew boards the lifeboat, the system lowers it, and everyone practices the escape they hope they never need. That is the design. That is the promise. When the cables snap instead, and three men never come home, the drill did not just fail — it became the very thing the drill was supposed to protect them from. That betrayal is where the questions start. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore injury and wrongful death cases. We are writing about this incident because the facts that have been reported — cables that “suddenly snapped” during a controlled drill with four men inside an enclosed lifeboat — raise serious questions about equipment maintenance, inspection practices, and supervisory judgment that deserve answers. We…