Deepwater Horizon Chief Driller Dewey Revette

Revette, from State Line, worried how the film would portray her late husband, driller Dewey Revette. She wondered if there was a split-second when Dewey knew he was going to die; she didn't want to see the realization come over his eyes on the big screen. But "Deepwater Horizon" doesn't tackle that ...

“I remember sitting in the assistant driller shack with Adam filling out some paperwork,” Holloway, then 28 and working as a floor hand on the drilling crew, recalls of fellow crew member Adam Weise. The phone rang. It was Dewey Revette, the rig's head driller. “He said, 'Hey, I need one of you to go to the ...

Denise Arnold and her husband Bobby attended a private screening Aug. 17 in Kenner, Louisiana, of the movie “Deepwater Horizon,” which opens Friday. “I kept my eyes closed most of the time — closed with tears in them,” Arnold says. Arnold's 22-year-old son, Shane Michael Rosto of Liberty, was one of ...

A Monticello oil rig worker will more than likely retire his hardhat for good after it made a cameo in a recent internet video. The movie "Deepwater Horizon," which stars Mark Wahlberg and is based on the story of the Transocean rig that sank after an explosion in April 2010, premieres Sept. 30.

Jason Anderson wasn't even supposed to be on the Deepwater Horizon that day. Anderson had been with the rig since it launched from a South Korean shipyard in 2001. By 2010, the Bay City, Texas, man had risen to senior tool pusher, akin to a foreman on a construction site. Anderson was transferring to ...

Dewey Revette, a Transocean driller for 29 years, had reportedly gotten into a squabble with Kaluza before the explosion that tore through the rig. His wife, Sherri Revette, of State Line, Miss., where her husband grew up, said she was pleased with Wednesday's legal action, largely because BP was forced ...

About 50 friends and family members of chief driller Dewey Revette gathered this past Sunday for a fish fry in Mississippi. It was the first time everyone had been together since he and 10 others were killed in the explosion. "Just wishing that Dewey was there," says Sherri Revette, his wife of 26 years.

Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico: Jason Anderson, Dale Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto and Adam Weise. Neal Conan remembers the lives ...

Four families, including Dewey Revette's, generously opened their doors and shared their memories. One grieving mother has moved into her son's house. A young wife raising two children under 6 finds ways for them to remember him. A father who longs to play golf with his son one more time is fighting to ...

Shortly after the exchange, chief driller Dewey Revette expressed concern and opposition too, the workers said, and on the drilling floor, they chatted among themselves. "I don't ever remember doing this," they said, according to Barron. "I think that's why Dewey was so reluctant to try to do it," Barron said, ...