The Season 10 Below Deck Mediterranean deck team continues to have a litany of troubles, and Captain Sandy Yawn dubs the newest flub “embarrassing” in the above preview of Episode 3 (airing Monday, Oct. 13).
It all starts when first-time bosun Nathan Gallagher tries to direct his team of deckhands, Max Salvador, Christian Trimino and Tessa Budd, on how to help the guests on the stern of motor yacht Bravado.
“We’re going to launch the tender,” he says, ticking off the tasks. “Christian, you’re in charge of sorting all this out now. Keep an eye on the guests. Tell them how to use the sea bob as well.”
As Nathan begins launching the tender, Max is captured on camera riding a jet ski with a guest. Nathan also tells Tessa on the radio to “make sure guests are safe [and] wearing life jackets [and] helmets if they go on the eFoils.” But Tessa looks on silently as Christian helps charter guest Tayla launch the sea bob without a life jacket. There’s another hint of trouble as Christian assists charter guest Sam with the foil, and Sam tells him, “I don’t know how the remote works.” Christian replies, “You’ll get it.”
But moments later, a guest jokes of Sam, “It looks like he’s reading a manual or something. ‘How to make it go.’” Her concern increases as cameras capture Sam moving farther and farther away from the yacht. “Where’s he going on the foil?” she asks Sandy. “Look at it! Holy Jesus!”
That’s when Tessa and Christian notice Sam drifting farther. “He’s floating away!” Tessa points out, and Christian asks, “Is he on the foil?” while Tessa adds, “Is he waving?”
Tessa admits she doesn’t know what the protocol is for helping the guest. “I don’t know if I should get on the radio and like announce that there’s a guest floating to China. I’m not in charge,” she explains in her confessional.
As Sandy angrily directs Christian to “go help them,” she also radioes Nathan to come back to the stern of the yacht. “Is it a mess?” he asks on the radio, and Sandy replies, “It’s ridiculous.”
As Nathan gets into the tender to ride out to rescue the guests, he mutters to himself, “God, this is a f—king s—t show and a half.”
Sandy laments on the disasterous situation in her confessional interview: “Tess and Christian have no idea what they’re doing. We have to have eyes on guests at all times.”
Nathan Gallagher slams his Below Deck Med deck team
The drifting guest isn’t the first time Nathan and his crew have struggled during Season 10. From the time Bravado left the dock for its first charter, Nathan worried his crew wasn’t up to the task.
“I’m too focused on getting off the dock and doing my job safely,” Nathan declared in Episode 1. “I can’t hold their hands. I can see already, this team’s not capable of giving 100 percent.” On the vessel, his mic also picked up audio of him declaring their departure was already a “f–king nightmare.”
Sandy was critical of Nathan and his crew’s slow efforts to launch all the water toys in the first charter, and after guests waited an hour and a half, Nathan called it “an absolute disgrance.”
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Sandy also put a deadline on Nathan and the deck team getting into shape.
“This is Nathan’s first time leading a team, so I’m not gonna apply pressure,” Sandy told a producer in the Sept. 19 episode. “But I need them to know they need to get everything out quicker. By charter three, it should be precision.”
Things didn’t improve much in Episode 2, after Nathan continued to deal with problems from his inexperienced deckhands.
“I do wanna give Tessa and Christian a chance to prove they’re capable of adjusting, learning, and getting on with the job as fast as possible,” Nathan explained during the Oct. 6 episode. “But I’m not even f–kin’ around anymore. This is actually terrible. This is beyond a joke.”
A Below Deck Med crew member suffers a medical emergency on charter
It hasn’t just been green crew members making mistakes that Nathan has had to contend with during Season 10. He, Captain Sandy and chief stew Aesha Scott all had to jump into action when Max decided to touch a jellyfish in the Oct. 6 episode.
“Wow look at this one! Life is incredible,” Max exclaimed as the jellyfish swam next to the yacht. He added in his confessional interview, “I love these beautiful blue-purple chandelier jellyfish. They’re f—king gorgeous. They look like majestic.”
Max was so bewitched by the jellyfish, he reached into the water off the swim platform, and said, “I ought to take one.”
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But Aesha tried to stop him and warned, “Is that not poisonous on top?” Max insisted, “You can grab them.” Within minutes, Max’s eyes were burning after he touched his face. Luckily, Max’s eye injury was healed by Day 3 of the first charter.
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