Is Aesha Scott OK? 'Below Deck Mediterranean' star recounts her encounter with 'gun-toting pirates'
Aesha Scott of 'Below Deck Down Under' has been working onboard boats for almost eight years, so she has plenty of interesting stories to tell. Fortunately for her admirers, she divulged some of her most shocking encounters on this week's episode of the 'Hollywood Raw' podcast with Adam Glyn and Dax Holt.
Despite the fact that Aesha began to doubt her future in yachting after the end of 'Below Deck Mediterranean' Season 5, viewers were overjoyed when Aesha was promoted to chief stew for 'Below Deck Down Under' Season 1. Despite Aesha and Captain Jason Chambers' issues with chef Ryan McKeown and third stew Magda Ziomek while chartering Thalassa, fans admired Aesha's ability to foster a joyful working atmosphere while being professional. Aesha's rapid popularity cemented her place as a fan favorite, with many thinking her the finest 'Below Deck' chief stew in the franchise. She gets the most wonderful and bizarre anecdotes from her time as a deckhand on yachts for so many years, working up close for some crazy affluent people, some of which she shares on the podcast.
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Her stories, which did not take place while filming the Bravo series, range from strange meetings to cringeworthy couplings, with her admitting she's even met real-life pirates "off the coast of Cuba." On the show, the celebrity described the latter circumstance as "so exciting" and "such a thrill." Initially, the crew just saw "this little boat coming towards us. We call it a dinghy ... a little tin boat," she said.
"I looked through these binoculars and coming towards us in this little dinghy was all of these dudes with AK-47s," she explained, claiming that there were more than a dozen individuals. Scott's boat was anchored at the time, so they decided to start the engine to avoid the strangers — but it takes around 10 minutes for the boat to gather enough power to go.
"So immediately ... they got all of us girls to the crew mess and locked us in there. We had no guns — just had a little handgun," the Second Stew reminisced. "So what the guys did is, all the deck crew had to go to the deck to start the armed forces. They rolled out all the fire hoses down the side so that if they did get to us and try to come on board, you can turn the fire hoses on. They're so strong it would probably blow them back off."
The guys also crushed glass bottles into shards from recycling bins "so they could use them to stab [the pirates] if they did manage to come aboard."
"So it was this mass panic. But that's where the excitement of the story ends, because then the engineers got the engines going, and we zoomed off into the sunset," the reality star said. "But I quite liked my little taste of the risk."