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Adriano Plotzky survived a catastrophic offshore oil platform explosion in Brazil that killed 37 people, one of the deadliest accidents in the country's petroleum industry.3:37 He recounts escaping a burning platform in 6-meter waves and heavy rain, descending roughly 30 meters of stairs to a small boarding platform where a rescue vessel made repeated passes.0:48 He warns that jumping from that height with a life jacket is fatal — the impact on landing breaks shoulders and drowns survivors — and instead he grabbed a lifeboat's line, threw his backpack aboard, and helped two stranded men board before cutting the line and departing.1:28 His supervisor Luber, whom he had gone to search for during the disaster, did not survive; Plotzky credits that search with saving his own life, since leaving to find Luber pulled him away from the men who perished in the fire.4:00 He returned to work the following day, and the crew spent months operating from a float hotel to restore the platform.5:17 The account covers life jacket hazards in high-fall rescues, lifeboat boarding in heavy seas, and the psychological weight of returning to work after mass-casualty trauma.

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