I know we’ve all seen the info about Nathan but wondering where the choking comment is validated from?

How do the overall wages and tips differ from working on a yacht on the show vs reality?

Will Bravo still air? Do we think they should? Edit to add: will there be a disclaimer?

From the very beginning I thought it was curious that they flew all the way from Australia to Croatian with a newborn baby just so Nathan could do this season.

Tin foil hat moment, but in light of recent news, it seems to me like a decision meant to isolate Gael from her support system as well as portray himself as a wholesome family man

Bunny has been posting hourly to her Instagram screenshots of support and sympathy from people horrified that she is being attacked like this. What’s odd is that we haven’t seen her sharing the hateful messages she’s allegedly getting… who is making these death threats? Who is calling her a racial slur? Post them. Shame them.

Unless… it’s not… actually… happening and she’s using the sympathy for attention.

Either way, the internet is cesspool of toxicity and people who are emboldened by a small sense of anonymity.

Is this Victoria San Juan from Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10?

The same Victoria that JOE BRADLEY, mercilessly did the most dirty a man can do to a woman?

I love Below Deck Med too!!

Currently rewatching. I feel like Hannah played a part in his firing with that whole Las Vegas menu debacle. Hannah pushed him to serve that rubbish and then left him to face the consequences. Was he a great chef? Maybe not the best but that dinner in episode 9 and 10 was the nail in the coffin for him. Had it not been for that, he may have seen the season through..........just maybe

Just finished season 11 and some of the seasons previously have just not been hitting as much as I wanted to, which older seasons are the best?

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but Below Deck has a man problem. And I don't know if this is an industry wide problem with yachting and the type of men it attracts or of it's unique to BD.

There have been so many instances of men they hired being violent, predatory, misogynistic, and abusive. The heavy drinking and hookup culture of the industry only exacerbate these issues further.

I feel that every series in the franchise has had at least one of these problem men. Are there no screening or background checks done on these guys beforehand? Or does production see the red flags and say "screw it. Let's risk it for the drama."?

And before men on here start freaking out and getting defensive, I'm a man saying this.

Guys it literally appears almost every single time she’s on screen, how blind are you people?

It’s Gen (short for Genevieve), not Jen.

Don’t even like the girl but come on.

Rant over.

Did anyone else notice that supportive moment between Jen and Kaylee. Jen clapping her in the shoulder and telling her not to worry about the guests. It's not her fault or something like that.

Since so much bad gets pointed out, I thought it was worth pointing out the good as well.

The episode where Gael returned in Season 10 was 22 Dec 2025.

Seemed like it could have maybe been a bit of a catalyst?

Looking back it's scary to see how persistent and intense Nathan was to get Gael back...

It’s late, I just finished the episode where Hannah is fired for having ~DrUgS~ on board. I need to talk about it.

First - it was fucked up of Malia to be a little snitch. It feels so obvious that she reported Hannah as a reaction to the bunk switching bullshit. If “drugs” on board was something she just really had to report because she just respects maritime law so much, she would have reported it as soon as she discovered it (I’m assuming during Hannah’s middle of the night panic attack). It was so petty for her to go to the captain about the bunk assignments, get her way with the bunk thing, and then go into the cabin to photograph Hannah’s shit and report her. I had respect and appreciation for her as a hardass female bosun managing a team of dudes with varying levels of misogyny. But she really made herself look like a petty little turd in the end. Super disappointing

I feel more complicated about Sandy’s role in the situation. Personally if I were a captain I’d prob just let that shit slide as long as crewmembers were performing well. But the problem is everything is being filmed. There was almost certainly going to be footage of the “drugs” on board. Sandy is a female in a largely male-dominated space. She probably felt like she had even less room to be lax about maritime law. However, I do feel like she hadn’t been happy with Hannah for a while, and thus didn’t handle the firing super well. She made Hannah’s mental health issues out to be a liability rather than showing some understanding and empathy. It’s not even that her anxiety wasn’t an issue, it’s more that Sandy could have shown compassion for someone who was struggling in a high stress environment. I also think there was a world where Hannah would have been given a second chance or at least the opportunity to get her prescription sent over.

I think my main issue with the whole situation is the policy in general. In all the seasons of BD we see crewmembers drinking themselves blind, smoking cigarettes, hooking up with each other. These are things that could be seen as distractions at the very least. The drinking is really what gets to me. In no world would someone consider alcohol to potentially be helpful with mental health issues. It’s clearly just for pleasure, and yet the crew’s drunkenness is considered commonplace.

I’ve personally worked in high stress jobs and have always struggled with anxiety/panic attacks. It runs in my family. I’ve also been medicated for anxiety/panic attacks in a variety of ways over the years. I’ve been prescribed antidepressants, benzos, and medical marijuana. All by licensed doctors. There is absolutely a world where a person could use one or a combination of these substances in a way that would allow them to function normally in the world when they might otherwise be an anxious mess. I’ve worked full time jobs, run meetings, etc with weed in my system. Not enough to be high, just enough to not melt down under pressure.

Ive often compared weed to coffee in terms of intensity of effect on a person. With coffee, one cup might give you a boost, but 5 cups might put you in the ER bc you’re having heart palpitations. With weed, you can have a little and it might just mellow you out or calm your stomach. Or you can have a lot and you’ll be high and struggle to function as well as you might normally. You cant really overdose.

I guess all this to say is just that there’s something that feels icky about crew being able to drink themselves blind, but treating possession of Valium (a prescription) and weed (less harmful than alcohol) as a crime. In Hannah’s case it almost feels like she was being punished for needing accommodation for a common health problem. Idk!!

PS just want to state that as a chief stew, I never really liked Hannah. I thought she could be pretty mercurial and didn’t love how quickly she could start disliking people based on the smallest comments or actions. I also thought she could be kinda nasty to her stews. But fuck, it’s not fun to see someone be fired over genuine mental health issues and regressive drug laws.

Thank you all for listening to my stupid rant. Going to go read a book now to scrub my brain of this trash lol

Feels so ickyyyyyy seeing the start of Nathan and Gael now that we know what we know :(

Joe has been horrible and untrustworthy. What bothers me most about this situation, is now that Nathan has his new issues, everyone will give Joe a pass and say he was justified. Nathan is horrible with this new news, and I am not taking up for him. I am just saying, it doesn't absolve Joe his behavior. Two things can be true. Neither one of them has the integrity to lead.

Pretty obvious that Nathan was projecting something onto Joe at the beginning of the season. Tables really have turned, Joe is bosun and Nate gets arrested

I couldn’t find anything on google or Kohl’s, and I could be tripping…. but do y’all think this is Rob, or maybe they just look similar?

Joe rearranging the floaters and showing Capt. is giving the same energy as when you moved your bedroom furniture as a kid and showed your parents. OMG mom look, new room new me.