Lifeboat safety is always a concern, but accidents and deaths during drills, particularly during the launch and recovery process, have severely curtailed live exercises - at least for offshore production platforms and oil rigs in jurisdictions such as those of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway. Typical lifeboat drills do not allow for real-life emergency situations to be practised and the sheer logistics of performing drills at offshore oil facilities is difficult at best. This renders lifeboat drill simulation even more important.
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