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Three Workers Dead, One Critical: When a Lifeboat Becomes the Killer on an Offshore Platform If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on an offshore platform and did not come home — or came home with fractures that will reshape the rest of their life — you are in a moment that feels impossible to move through. The phone call from the platform. The helicopter evacuation. The hospital corridor. The forensic department where a body must be claimed. We know the shape of that moment because we have sat across the kitchen table from families who lived it, and we know that the questions that follow — what happened, who is responsible, and whether anyone will be held to account — do not wait for grief to settle before they demand answers. What happened at the Sepat platform in the Terengganu-Kelantan waters of the South China Sea is not an isolated freak accident. Three safety department personnel boarded a lifeboat to lower themselves to sea level for routine maintenance on the platform’s lower section. The rope or hook attached to the lifeboat detached. All four men and the boat plunged into the sea. Three were…