Welcome to our recap of Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9 Episode 11! In this
Welcome to under the surface of the mediterranean sea Season 9 Episode 11 Recap! In this week’s episode, titled “The Perfect Storm,” the in-house crew struggles to maintain pleasant manners while serving some very demanding guests. Sandy tells the guests a rather compelling story about some terrible charter guests who treated her crew poorly and how she straightened them out. The captain also suffers a loss at home, and Joe accepts an invitation from Ellie but immediately regrets it. Here are some highlights from Below Deck Med Season 9 Episode 11.
A short trip begins on board Below Deck Mediterranean
Sandy says the winds will be high today, so they’ll be pulling the boat out of the dock early. The charter guests, as well as supplies, will be picked up by the small boat.
When the guests arrive, Gail and Joe take the boat and pick them up from the dock. They then have to make another trip to pick up the luggage.
Ladies want to know where the best spot on the ship is to take photos. Aisha suggests the sun deck, or if they prefer the shade, there’s a lower deck with couches.
“These couches are ugly,” says one guest. “It would be nice if they were removed.” Calm down, ma’am. You’re only here for one night. You don’t have time to redecorate your house.
Later, the guests were at the bar in the lounge and one of the ladies asked the head chef, “Can you get me my drink? It’s right there,” and she pointed over her shoulder. Literally, ten feet away. Oh my God, Louise, ma’am. Is that too much right?
“I’m more than happy to go and get you your favorite drink,” Aisha says in an interview. “Just ask me politely.” I would never treat a waitress that way. Show some respect to someone who is just doing their job!
“It looks like it’s going to be tough at work,” Aisha whispers to Eli as the women exit.
Ellie runs back and forth a lot in the next part. I would have been afraid to let these ladies in the water, the way they put alcohol.
“What just happened?” Ellie asks as the women take their drinks to their cabins to prepare for dinner. “That was a lot.”
Don’t shoot Bambi!
When she goes to change into her evening outfit, Ellie can’t find her black dress. She radios Bree, who begins frantically searching for it. Unfortunately, she finds it in a laundry bag.
“It wasn’t washed. It’s shocking!” Ellie says in the interview. “We’ve been treating Bree like a baby deer. If I bring that dress in and Bree gets fired for it, it’s like I shot Bambi. It doesn’t serve me well at all.”
Meanwhile, Aisha asks Chef Juno to come out of the kitchen and show the guests how to make caviar. Although beluga is supposed to be the “best caviar,” one guest complains, “It tastes a bit like a washcloth.”
“Oh, that’s not good,” Juno replies. “Honestly, that’s what’s available. It’s kind of hard to get stuff around here.”
In his confession, Juno added: “I can’t do anything about the fact that your caviar ‘tastes like a washcloth.’ I didn’t take those eggs out. Some fish did. That’s it. I’m busy making you dinner. Can I get to work, or do you want to talk more?”
Aisha responds to Below Deck Mediterranean
At the dinner table, a guest complains that she doesn’t have a knife. Her friends ask, “Why do I have a butter knife?”
When Aisha returns to the table, the guest says, “I was looking for a knife, but this is a butter knife.”
“No, it’s a fish knife,” Aisha answers calmly.
“Oh, she’ll teach me,” the woman says to her companion. She screams out loud. What an impudent thing to do!
“I’ve been in the service for a very long time,” Aisha continued gently. “This is a fish knife… The fish is not supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to be soft, so it cuts easily.”
“Well, your caviar service was pretty bad. I’m just saying,” the woman replies. “Well, this lady is drunk.” Aisha smiles and walks away.
“These are people who like to claim to be upper class,” Aisha says in her confessional. “Where’s the ‘class’ part? I’m so good at my job that I don’t really care that answering these guests will get me in trouble. I have to stand up for myself at some point.”
Captain Sandy stops and asks, “By the way, how was your dinner?”
Everyone says it was really good. I expected someone to complain about Aisha’s “attitude”, but thank God she got over it and just wants to talk about Sandy’s shiny silver shoes.
Joe talks to the ladies nicely.
As the party moved upstairs to the sun deck, the ladies shouted for more drinks. These ladies really can handle it! I was done after two. The fish knife lady complained again. “Where’s the service?” I asked. “They need to find a solution to their problems.”
Ellie had finished eating in the pantry, so Aisha told her to “stay at the bar.” When she finally went up to see what the ladies wanted to drink, the boss said they should probably get “triple drinks” since they would be staying there for a while. Ellie told them she would check on them every 15 minutes and ran downstairs to make them drinks.
Joe wanders into the salon while Aisha and Ellie make drinks. “You have to charm these ladies. They’re just girls,” Aisha says.
“How are things going there?” Sandy asks.
“They’re bad girls,” Ellie says.
Aisha adds: “One of the ladies was holding a fish knife and she said, ‘I really wanted a fish knife, but you gave me a butter knife.’ I said, ‘This is a fish knife.’”
Sandy says the next time someone does this, show them the difference: A fish knife is obviously pointed, while a butter knife is round. Who would have thought that?
When Joe said good night to the women, one of them said, “They brought him just to say nice things to us!” They did, quite frankly.
just be nice
The president’s husband says his wife sometimes feels hungry at night.
Aisha started to say, “The chef has prepared some sandwiches,” but the head student interrupted her, saying, “I don’t eat sandwiches.”
Aisha explains that the chef is in bed, so it’s as it is.
The next morning, Gail, Joe and Nathan were doing their jobs without any direction from the crew chief. “Since Ian isn’t the best communicator, whenever we needed something done, we just did it,” Gail says. “Ian was probably a management genius, and he built this whole thing up so that the team was self-sufficient, and he didn’t have to do a lot of work.”
Captain Sandy sits behind the bar chatting with guests. Retired basketball player Mike praises her for being “the best crew.”
“I always say this,” Sandy replies. “If you defeat a character, you’ll kill their spirit. But if you’re generous and thankful, you’ll build them up and they’ll want to do more for you. I had a client who spent a million euros on a ship charter. They were very rude to my crew. I pulled the main ship, and I said, ‘I’ll cancel your charter tomorrow if you treat my crew like that again.’ They changed it like this. I called [boat] The owner said, “I don’t need the money. I’m fine.”
“How you treat others really matters,” Sandy adds in her confessional. “From what Aisha and the other crew members have told me, these clients are tough. Am I getting my point across?”
Sandy gets bad news from home.
Sandy receives a phone call from Leah, her friend. Aisha passes by and asks her if she is okay.
“Billy died last night,” Aisha says. Billy was her and Leah’s dog. And immediately Aisha said, “Oops,” and pulled her in for a hug. And I started crying. Dogs are like your children. It’s so sad when they die. I understand how you grieve.
“It’s sad,” Sandy says in an interview. “My heart aches for Leah. The beautiful part is that I had five years with Billy, but Leah had eleven. She was full of love.” She pulls out photos of Aisha from her phone, and Aisha hugs her again.
“That’s the hardest part about yachting, having to miss all these things,” says Aisha.
“As a captain, you’re at sea when there are a lot of deaths,” Sandy says in an interview. “Losing Billy, remembering all your losses.” Poor Sandy. I want to hug her, too.
Joe makes a mistake
During the trip to the beach, Joe stupidly took a picture with Ellie, at the guests’ request. In the picture, she kisses him on the cheek. Now, he thinks twice.
“Oh my God! What have I done?” Gil and Nathan ask after he shows them the picture. “I don’t want any of them at all! But when I drink alcohol, I turn into a demon.”
It was time for the guests to leave! Aisha sighed, “Thank God!” At least the trip was short.
As she says goodbye to everyone, Ellie sweetly thanks them for everything, but then drops a bombshell. “To my sweetheart,” she says, “I can’t wait to see what happens next. You know who you are.” Ellie smiles, as Joe squirms.
The initial phase ends with, “I don’t think we have any problems, do we?”
“Were we on the same page? I would certainly accept it. But this is very confusing,” Aisha says in her confession.
Meanwhile, Joe was feeling nervous. “What just happened? Why was I just called in?”
After being encouraged by guests to call her and Joe “lovers,” Ellie decides to ask Joe out on a date. She goes up to the roof where he works and says, “Joe, I have a question for you. I wanted to ask you out on a little date tonight. How about that?”
Joe replies, “Oh my God, just you and me?” But he gives in and says, “Let’s do this.”
atmosphere is back
But almost immediately, he feels remorse.
“That’s a bad idea,” Gail says.
“I really like Ellie,” Joe tells Nathan. “She’s obviously very attractive… I already agreed, but I don’t want to go… I’m not going, buddy. End of story. Over.”
“It would be so bad!” Gayle interviewed. “I feel like Ellie is the kind of girl that if I had sex with [over]”You’re going to burn the whole boat down. I’m on that boat too, man.”
It’s time for the advice meeting. The first to arrive are Joe and Gail. “Sit next to me,” Joe pleads.
“So no one else can do it?” Gail says.
“The first question for today is: Who are the lovers?” Sandy begins.
“Ian and Nathan,” one person jokes, while Nathan says, “Me and Joe.”
“I’m just curious,” Sandy says, before thanking them all for keeping smiles on their faces under difficult circumstances. “I’m so proud of you.”
As he was walking back to his cabin, Joe passed by Ellie’s cabin, where she was getting ready for their date. “Are you excited?” she asked.
But he’s not, and everyone knows it except Ellie. He sits her down and tries to get the words out. “Honestly, I’m feeling a lot of pressure,” he finally says. “I don’t want a date.”
You’d better lock your door tonight, Joe.
Below Deck Mediterranean airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.
Tell us – what did you think of Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9, Episode 11? Do you think Ellie will take out her anger on the entire boat or just Joe?
