Below Deck Down Under’s second season confirmed the spin-off as a fan favourite, with Captain Jason Chambers successfully guiding the team through turbulent waters and boisterous charter guests.
However, the Bravo series finished without a crew reunion for the second year in a row, leaving some fans disappointed.
There was a lot to analyse from the episodes following Luke Jones and Laura Bileskalne were fired for separate incidences of sexual misconduct, and Adam Kodra was fired for a deadly error.
Although there was no reunion, Captain Jason explained exactly what he wants to dive into from the season if given the chance.
Speaking while promoting his Invisalign partnership, the 50-year-old said: ‘This is the best part of the show, it is real and trying to answer audience comments on social media is very difficult because sometimes they don’t realize.
‘I don’t see everything, I don’t go out with the crew. Production don’t tell me unless it’s untoward – I would not know.
‘We actually see Laura having a few drinks, then we see Margot having a few drinks. When that comes back up, that does annoy me even more.
‘When I addressed Margot, I actually made a response based on just the smell of alcohol. Obviously, I didn’t see all these things, Aesha didn’t see all these things. I had to address the situation and see if she was coherent, she seemed okay to me.
‘I wanted to make sure her mental health was in a good spot, moreso than that. I think that was my biggest concern right there and then.’
‘Going back on it, there was an issue there with stewardesses enjoying a few little sips here and there,’ he continued.
‘But, I don’t see it. That’s something I think, going next year, that I’ll be putting my foot down. I’ll bring that into next season – if there’s another season. Hopefully, fingers crossed.’
Captain Jason made his Below Deck debut last year and made an immediate impression on both viewers and his co-stars.
We saw as he expected perfection from his employees and shown that he wasn’t hesitant to make necessary adjustments to enhance service, dismissing both chef Ryan McKeown and cook Magda Ziomek when their standards weren’t up to par in his first season.
When asked about the differences between seasons, the star admitted that he would have changed things up a little sooner during his debut.
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‘Season one, we were in the middle of Covid, we couldn’t do too much, our hands were tied [on] making changes a bit earlier,’ he said. ‘I probably would have made one or two changes earlier, I think you know who… But we couldn’t move too many people on early, we had to wait for some reserves to come in.
‘That didn’t worry me too much because my thought process is that we should try and grow people as much as we can.
‘Season two, I could make changes, but the changes I made weren’t part of a growth change. We had to make some important changes straightaway.
‘I think I did that in season one as well, trying to get the end result to show the audience where we want to get to, and the crew where they should get to. I kept the same narrative for season two. We want to actually end with the best possible team, doing the best possible things they are doing on a boat.
‘If I can’t get that out of the crew member, and I can find someone better, I’m going to make a change for the better of the boat.’
Fingers crossed for that season three…
Below Deck Down Under is available to stream on Bravo in the US and in the UK.
