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Three Men Who Worked in Safety Are Gone — Killed by the Equipment Meant to Save Lives If you are reading this because someone you love was on the Sepat platform on May 24, 2026 — because you got a phone call from an offshore installation manager telling you there had been an accident, or because you are sitting in a hospital corridor in Kuala Terengganu waiting to hear whether your husband, your father, your brother will survive the bone fractures he sustained when that lifeboat dropped into the sea — then you are in the worst moment of your life, and we want you to have something in your hands that is honest. Here is what is honest: three men who worked in the platform’s safety department boarded a lifeboat to lower themselves to sea level so they could perform maintenance on the lower section of the platform. They were the people trained to keep everyone else alive. The rope or hook attached to the lifeboat detached — and all four men fell into the South China Sea along with the boat. Three were pronounced dead on arrival at Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital. One is critically injured with severe…