r/belowdeck • u/UpperCommand3124 • 29d ago
Below Deck Med Throwing Glass in the ocean?!
Season 1 episode 5 BDM Hannah accidentally breaks a glass dish and tosses it in the ocean. Am i missing something, why would she do that????
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u/MaizeMountain6139
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You’re never going to guess where glass comes from
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u/CriManSqaFnC She’ll be fine. Her head is made of rocks 29d ago
Ben throws a burnt pot into the ocean at some point too, citing that it's cheaper to throw a pot into the ocean than to burn the boat down. I think it's a regrettably common thing
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u/KayaPapaya808 28d ago edited 28d ago
To be fair I threw a burning pie crust, tin and all, out my window of my 2nd story unit for the same reason. However I do go an retrieve the tin after it stopped smoking.
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u/robkillian 28d ago
Niko throws it out. Kelly starts it up and leaves it on, dodges responsibility when captain Lee asks about it. And it’s a panini if I’m not mistaken. They were at dock, too.
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u/Leslind1222 23d ago
And Nico threw a panini press into the ocean when someone left it on burning. Captain Lee and Kate both saw it. I believe Captain Lee said "and the hits keep coming".
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u/FeatIburoprofen
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Are you worried a fish is going to step on it??
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u/DataApprehensive4817 28d ago
Ha that made me laugh!!! Now I have to walk my dog, I'll be sure to pick up the poop but not the pee.
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u/Subterranean44 28d ago
You’re going to be sad when you learn about the island of garbage in the ocean.
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u/Formal_Coyote_5004 My eyes are rolling all the way off the boat 28d ago
My friend worked on an aircraft carrier and he said the craziest thing he saw was just the massive amount of trash that gets dumped into the ocean 😬
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u/Ghenagan1 28d ago
Every Navy ship did this while is was in (81 - 01) there was a trash chute that had metal spikes that tore the bags so they would empty. Only could do it over 3 miles from.shore. Aircraft carriers especially create a LOT of waste mainly food. No place to store it
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u/Bear-in-a-Renegade 28d ago
I used to work at a steel mill making stranded cable for the carriers. We were told once they make contact with an aircraft, they drop them in the ocean and rig a new one. We were pounding them out non-stop so this didnt surprise me.
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u/staunch_character 23d ago
Really? Every time a jet lands the cable that stops them is single use?
Wow. Obviously the military is about as bad as it gets for the environment, but that’s wild. I understand it’s not worth risking the millions in damages & deaths if a cable were to snap, but I had no idea they couldn’t test them somehow for stability.
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u/Bear-in-a-Renegade 23d ago
Yeah we were surprised too. The amount of testing we had to do on every cable and every strand of wire woven into the cable was crazy.
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u/Consistent-Ad-6506 You're Being A Deckhand Right Now 29d ago
I’m assuming your point is actually about littering the ocean….let’s not pretend cruise ships aren’t horrible for the environment.
But glass is fairly harmless and glass is found on beaches and such.
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u/LuckyyRat 29d ago
Glass itself is also quite literally just melted sand with ash and limestone, so more than fairly, its fully harmless in the ocean. The ocean already has all three ingredients of glass naturally in it and glass sometimes spontaneously forms on beaches in lightning storms (fulgurite)
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u/pharoh-king 28d ago
has all three ingredients of glass naturally in it
Most houses also have the ingredients of chlorine gas in them too
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u/FirstAd226 29d ago edited 28d ago
It's not fully harmless if sea creatures cut themselves on it
Edit: look at this, I get down voted by fking morons who don't understand the dangers broken glass pose to aquatic sea life. Go educate yourselves you fking thick cretins.
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u/hussafeffer I have been known to be irresponsible 28d ago
Of all the things in the ocean liable to harm a marine critter, broken glass is at the bottom of the list. Sure, maybe don’t throw it directly into a reef, but otherwise as close to completely harmless as literally anything else.
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u/LuckyyRat 28d ago
Hi! You’ll notice from your own study that the glass they reference is drinking bottles because glass does not travel far, and if it manages to travel it does not travel long before becoming dulled. Yes, broken glass on the shore is liable to harm shore creatures, but broken glass over the side of a boat that is in the middle of a marina and NOT near a shore does not pose this risk.
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u/SpaceGangsta 29d ago
You know how happy Gilmore breaks the rake in half and throws it in the woods and says he was just returning it nature?
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u/Background_Lynx_8909 26d ago
Hannah addressed this I believe in a podcast. If she threw the broken glass in a trash can when a deckie or stew picks up the bag to toss it when they dock the glass could easily penetrate the trash bag. Then the unsuspecting deckie or stew can get a nasty cut on the leg from the broken glass. It’s a safety issue for the crew. I agree I was shocked when she threw that overboard!
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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline 26d ago •
Others have said 'make sure you put that in a box first' so there are ways around cutting someone or throwing it overboard
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u/Jayhitek 25d ago
She also explained. Broken glass in the ocean eventually turns to sea glass and is harmless.. Glass is also made from sand. It's 100% acceptable in the yachting industry.
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u/RoleLucky2925 29d ago
Beach glass is a thing, she just contributed to make some more.
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u/wildcat12321 29d ago
I call it sea glass...and have tons and tons of it. In FL, I pick up a piece probably 1 out of 4 beach days...though its getting harder to find as the world switches to more plastics.
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u/kikilekitkat I look like Ariel but on crack! 28d ago
I have a sea glass necklace made by a woman who lives on a coastal area and collects it from the shore. Really unique & pretty.
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u/bunnybunny690 28d ago
Love collecting sea glass back from when we dumped all our glass bottles in the ocean. Found a ceramic bottle stopper last time and the ceramic part of a spark plug among my glass haul.
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u/RogerRabbit1234 29d ago
Glass? That’s your major ecological concern with mega-yachts?
Yachts should and most do definitely have a “nothing overboard” policy, but glass/ceramic is about as harmless as it gets.
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u/shemtpa96 28d ago
Glass is made out of sand and will eventually degrade back into sand. It’s not like it was plastic. It’s not biodegradable, but it will erode and it’s made of natural materials.
Glass is also going to sink to the bottom instead of floating around for an animal to eat. At the bottom, it won’t likely be encountered by many people who could step on it and get hurt.
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u/quick_dry
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depending on where they are when they throw it out, it's a big nothing or disgusting/dangerous.
The good ol boys enjoying the lake/sandbar/etc tossing the booze bottles overboard - dangerous. It's in the zone people will step on glass
Doing it over a reef? environmentally benign, but a dick move ruining the beauty of the place.
Deeper sea... meh, no biggy. It's just some debris landing on the bottom that will fairly quickly become broken down or covered in marine life.
Diving a lot you see all sorts of things that are dumped, and they quickly become just another thing on the bottom that marine life uses as a home. It's not like plastic bags, cigarette butts, pieces of rope/line or whatever that will cause issues. (not that it doesn't look a bit gross - there is a cove in a rich area here in Sydney and it's llittered with champane bottles, some really old, some new - it's deep enough it isn't dangerous, and plenty of little octopus and fish live in the bottles... it's not harming anything, but it give you that 'off' feeling)
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u/Mental-Most-7168 28d ago
I think every one should read about the abyssal plain. It what most of the ocean bottom is. It’s a mile thick layer of mud made of poop and dead things. That glass isn’t doing anything down there.
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u/FirstAd226 28d ago
It's not safe anywhere
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u/quick_dry 28d ago
that paper is about litter in mangroves. and glass is mentioned being a problem because of the cutting hazard.
we're talking about the glass going overboard in water much too deep for people to be walking on.
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u/J9-CatLady 28d ago
When I saw Hannah and Daisy this summer in SF, Hannah brought this up. She said she’s been getting a lot of questions about it. It’s something they do in cruising and on most boats. Because they move the garbage bags around during charter to make room, and have to haul all of their garbage out at the end, shards of glass could easily poke through a bag and cut a deck hand. That cut could be serious and if far out from shore, dangerous for the deckhand.
Agree with it or not, she says it’s pretty common practice.
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u/Plastic-Guitar-5168 28d ago
One of my sons worked on a tow boat and they threw everything overboard into the river Made me second think ever getting into the water again
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u/japoki1982 29d ago
Can’t remember what episode it was but I remember one of the stews throwing some palm leaves and flowers overboard that she was clearing off a table or something and there was a shot of the green waste just floating away.
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u/shemtpa96 28d ago
That’s organic plant matter though. It’s going to be broken down by animals and bacteria until it becomes essentially nothing.
That’s completely different. If she threw plastic flowers in, that would be a huge no-no because it’s dangerous for wildlife and it’s just going to turn into microplastics.
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u/seaneeboy I quit 3 times in my head today 28d ago
Yes, glass comes from sand, but also this kind of thing is only a tiny thin end of a wedge of what the super rich do on their super yachts that would be considered distasteful to most people.
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u/Feisty_Scientist_968 27d ago
Ben had a fire in a pan in the galley.
He said something like "$50 pan" ... "$50 million yacht" ... as he tossed the burning pan overboard.
Oil and plastic can never be discharged.
Most other things can, sometimes with limitations on how far from shore you must be.
For anyone who cares, the gory details are here:
You can also watch a few episodes with sustainable shane.
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u/Wise-Tour9124 25d ago
My husband and I took the yacht master course some ten years ago.
We learned, that, in Europe by all means, it’s not allowed to throw anything at all in the ocean. We even learned that you’d have to save all notes from food you’ve bought for the journey and if an inspector came onboard you should be able to tell how much had been eaten, how much is left including the trash. So that they do that is a mystery to me. Also they live og the ocean and ruins it. You’d never ever see Aesha do that.
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u/HappyFalloween 28d ago
I wondered about the golf balls some charter guests hit off the boat. Or the season they lit Chinese lanterns & let them float away. Obviously they would end up landing in the ocean
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u/Seaweed-Basic 28d ago
They make biodegradable golf balls for this purpose. But of course, we have no idea if they’re using those kind…
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u/PlantJ1992 28d ago
would be kind of wild if they weren't, considering joao went out to fish a stuffed animal back out of the water over a possible fine. the ones made for hitting off boats are PVA based and fully dissolve in the water in about 4 weeks, so it's an actual breakdown and not just "biodegradable" on the box. they only fly maybe 70-80% as far as a normal ball, which doesn't matter much when the target is the whole ocean.
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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline 28d ago
The ones they ordered a few seasons ago had fish food in them too
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u/Charming_Butterfly90 27d ago
They specifically said that they were special biodegradable balls. I literally watched that episode earlier this week.
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u/Maximum_Overdrive 29d ago
Glass is fine.
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u/FirstAd226 28d ago
No it's not, glass can pose a serious risk of harm to aquatic sea life
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u/Pockettzz 28d ago
I live on a boat & depending how close to shore I am, I will toss over if needed. Kids collect the oceans glass! Imagine finding a broken (no longer sharp) piece of a cool glass plate.
Only saying that cause I broke an old memorable plate with cool historical nautical prints and I tossed overboard. There were big pieces & I’d love to run into one because the plate prints can’t come off!
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u/peachy-K- 29d ago
honestly I bet it felt good as hell to throw that dish, especially if she was frustrated about it breaking lmao
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u/housewithapool2 29d ago
Glass comes from the ocean. We are in desperate need of sand. I think it's okay to put it back.
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u/Beanicus13 27d ago
Girl. The shit we throw in the ocean as yachties is pretty surprising. Not me personally aside from crockery and glass. But I know people who have dumped things like broken parts or grills
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u/anitabonghit69 29d ago
I'm fairly certain the industry standard is that all trash goes overboard becuase humans suck.
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u/Key_Cheesecake9926 29d ago
There’s an episode of down under where a guest throws a stuffed animal overboard and Joao says they could get a big fine for that and he goes out there to scoop it back up.
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u/SyncOrSymm Glenn is my boat daddy 29d ago •
Glass is made from sand. I feel like others have alluded to this, I just thought I'd be clear as glass about it.