The new project is one of the reasons Lee hasn’t had much free time to keep in touch with his former St. David yachties.
“I’ve been doing a lot of work with this new show and that’s occupied a lot of my time and thought process,” he explained, “because it’s it is so totally different from Below Deck. We have people that get killed. Even though on Below Deck I may have felt like I wanted to kill somebody at one time or another, it didn’t actually ever happen. Here we’re in a little bit more of a serious nature and it affects people’s lives and people do lose their lives.”
“It’s amazing how much the ocean plays in catching these perpetrators,” Lee continued. “When I watched the first episode, I thought, ‘What are they thinking?!'”
See Capt. Lee return to the sea when Deadly Waters with Captain Lee premieres Saturday, June 1, at 9 p.m. on Oxygen. And keep reading to look back at the most dramatic crew firings in Below Deck history.