In the above preview for Season 5, Episode 7 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht, which is set to air Monday, November 18, members of the crew are startled awake by the possibility of a big crash — one of the absolute scariest ways to wake up when you’re in the middle of the ocean.
Keith Allen, meanwhile, isn’t even aboard Parsifal III as he head to leave to pick the charter guests up from an evening out at the clubs of Ibiza (which means we’re down one deckhand already, FYI).
“Good evening! How was your night?” he asks the satisfied customers as they make their way to the tender, unaware that anything is wrong.
Then, as Gary King and Danni Warren chat back on board, Gary hears something that makes him run to the front of the ship and calls for someone to wake Captain Glenn Shephard.
“Ahh, for f-cks sakes,” he says, looking off into the water. It appears another boat is right in front of them.
As soon as he hears the news, the captain jumps up from his slumber. In order to make sure all hands are literally on deck, Gary calls for Emma Crouch to be woken up, too.
“Emma, we need you on deck right now,” Danni says.
“Why, what’s up?” responds Emma. “There’s a boat in front of us,” says her coworker. And with that, everyone is in action — as the two ships get closer, and closer, and closer together.
The Below Deck Sailing Yacht crew previously crashed a tender
This isn’t the only crash the crew has had to contend with this season. On Episode 2, Gary accidentally crashed a tender.
Though everything worked out fine, the situation had the potential to be financially devastating.
“If the tender’s got a hole in it, it won’t sink because it’s an inflatable tender, but it could submerge that engine and then we’re buying a new one. And that tender is about 180,000 Euros,” Captain Glenn explained in a confessional.
What happens during Season 5 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht?
While we’ll have to wait for November 18 to find out how (and if) the crew gets out of this mess, we know a bit about this season’s other dramas.
A press release shared ahead of the season premiere explained that, next to precarious orienteering, the crew will have to “navigate” everything from “competitive co-workers” to “tense personal dynamics, all while trying to raise the bar every charter.”
