\u201cBelow Deck\u201d star Captain Kerry Titherage<\/a> found himself in a tense encounter with federal agents, including masked ICE officers, Page Six has learned.<\/p>\nWe\u2019re told he had just captained a nine-day trip in the Bahamas and was sailing back to Miami when one of the vessel\u2019s four engines failed.<\/p>\n
Captain Kerry Titherage (posing for a \u201cBelow Deck\u201d promotional shot) found himself in a tense encounter with federal agents.<\/p>\n
Kerry (seen here on \u201cBelow Deck\u201d) had suffered two engine failures when he was approached by ICE off the coast of Florida. Stephanie Diani\/Bravo<\/p>\n
According to a salty source, about 10 miles off the Florida coast, a second engine failed, leaving Captain Kerry struggling to navigate increasingly rough waters.<\/p>\n
He called emergency service Towboat US for assistance. But instead, he found himself approached by two federal vessels, one operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the other by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re told one boat carried three or four agents while the other held seven or eight masked officers.<\/p>\n
He was approached by approximately 12 officers. Charles Sykes\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n
He was tailed by the officers for almost two hours before they were allowed on the vessel. Ralph Bavaro\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Insiders say the agents demanded he slow down and allow them to board. But Titherage, who has over 30 years of experience working on boats, refused. He worried that reducing speed and the rough conditions would be dangerous.<\/p>\n
The federal boats tailed him for approximately two hours, we\u2019re told, until Captain Kerry was able to slow down safely and they eventually boarded the yacht.<\/p>\n
Agents searched the yacht for contraband and examined passengers\u2019 passports, spending about an hour scrutinizing the visa of a female foreign national on board, before allowing the vessel to land.<\/p>\n
Officers searched the vessel for contraband and spent an hour studying the passport of a guest.<\/p>\n
A rep for Captain Kerry told Page Six, \u201cWe are glad the situation didn\u2019t escalate and that everyone left safely.\u201d Ralph Bavaro\/Bravo<\/p>\n
A rep for Captain Kerry told Page Six, \u201cWe are glad the situation didn\u2019t escalate and that everyone left safely.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE didn\u2019t respond to our request for comment.<\/p>\n
The Captain made his reality TV debut on \u201cBelow Deck Adventure\u201d in 2022 and took over for longtime star Captain Lee Rosbach from \u201cBelow Deck\u201d in 2024. He\u2019s steered the flagship ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talk about an ICE-y reception! While at the helm of a yacht owned by an NBA star, \u201cBelow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[63629,603,91,88,186,92,10589],"class_list":["post-900631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-below-deck","tag-bravo","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-tv","tag-yachts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}