Below Deck Down Under second officer João Franco is opening up about the most dangerous moment he’s experienced at sea — and viewers may not have realized just how close the situation came to tragedy.
While serving as bosun on Below Deck Mediterranean Season 4, Franco recalled a frightening moment when deckhand and close friend Colin Macy-O’Toole was raising the anchor when it suddenly became stuck, forcing him to use all his strength to pull it free.
“[On board] Sirocco, we had a situation—I would say the deadliest that we’ve been through—with Colin,” Franco recounted on the Below Deck Down Under After Show. “He was pulling up the anchor, and he was looking over the side...the chain got caught, and it started accumulating on deck... Colin was trying to yank the last two links that were holding three and a half tons worth of weight. So when I got there, I went, ‘Colin, stop, stop, stop! F—king stop!’”
Franco says Macy-O'Toole could have been killed. “That there, I’ve known people who have lost lives, lost legs," he said. "It was such a short moment where we fixed it, and nothing happened, so it didn’t seem like a big deal, but it was one of the most heartfelt times I thought, ‘F—k, we almost lost someone.’”
This memory is likely why Franco reacted the way he did on Below Deck Down Under when deckhand Betul Yazici also ran into trouble raising the anchor. “Whenever we pull up anchor, the chain could pile up too high and too fast, and jam the system,” he said in a confessional during the episode. “The only way we can fix this is to let the chain all out and start the process again.”
Franco had to go into the bosun's locker to move the chain along–something that can also be dangerous. “Going into the bosun’s locker and then opening the chain locker is probably one of the most dangerous things you to do because of the enclosed space—you can lose oxygen immediately,” he said on the After Show. “And I’ve fought dizziness right away.”
By staying calm and working deliberately, Franco was able to untangle the chain despite the ordeal putting the crew nearly an hour behind schedule. “These things happen. We’ve had situations where we’ve almost lost an entire anchor. If we couldn’t get it up, we’d drop the anchor and keep going,” he said.
Below Deck Down Under is on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo.
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