Wives of Deepwater Horizon rig workers tell of concerns they heard weeks before explosion

By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune
June 07, 2010, 12:30PM The wives of two workers who died in the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion testified this morning before a special meeting of the House Energy subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in Chalmette. Both told committee members that their husbands, Shane Roshto and Wyatt Kemp, had told them in the weeks before the explosion about problems they had in controlling the well. “This well was different in the fact that they were having so many problems, and so many things were happening, and it was just kind of out of hand,” said Courtney Kemp, of Jonesville, La. Several of the committee members asked whether their husbands felt comfortable bringing safety concerns to Transocean, which owned the rig, or BP, which was leasing the rig to drill its well. “My husband was willing and able and could go speak to Transocean members, but as far as BP it was not like that, because they called the shots,” Kemp said. … “I know that my husband can’t come back. There’s nothing I can do or say to make him come back,” said Natalie Roshto, who lives in Liberty, Miss. But she had pointed questions for the responsible parties. “Why? What went wrong, Why weren’t you out there trying to do something in the weeks before when they were having problems.” …