Below Deck Med S11, Ep16: No Friends on Deck

Last episode ended with poor Michelle looking like she was in a little bit of trouble after the flying spinny thing, the spinny couch.

I looked it up.

It's called a crazy UFO or disco boat.

I was very curious, so I had to Google it.

That came down pretty hard, and poor Michelle was injured.

So Joe was driving the boat, towing the crazy UFO.

They hit the wake, they go flying, and Michelle comes down really hard.

She's in a lot of pain.

and the team realizes that it's pretty serious so joe radios in that they need to call a medic who is there in what seems a flash he treats michelle and says that she needs to go to the hospital unfortunately the water is too rough to transport michelle on the tender so captain sandy has the team hauling all the inflatables and have the boat ready to head back to dock in 25 minutes Whew, so much pressure.

I love that Aisha just jumped onto deck.

She is like a pro on deck now.

She's just in there getting her hands dirty, doesn't matter, just doing it for the team.

So they do it in what seems like record time and get ready to head back to the dock.

So next we see a conversation happening between Joe and Nathan.

So Joe's obviously saying, you know, he feels awful.

He didn't mean to do it.

Nathan's pretty much just saying silence.

And then we see him in his confessional say, of course, it's Joe's fault.

I actually really wish we would have heard from the captain on this to understand it a bit more.

We didn't see her reprimand Joe or say anything about it to him, actually.

And obviously it was clearly an accident.

But then on the other hand, we have Nathan saying Joe was driving too fast.

I honestly can't trust anything that Nathan says at this point because he's just so blinded by hate for Joe that his viewpoint is just totally skewed.

So I had a little research myself online and found something on a publication called Motorboats and Yachting.

And they say that when driving the towboat with water inflatables, most manufacturers recommend you keep your speed below 20 knots.