Ashton Pienaar Below Deck Age, Injury Recovery, Education, Wiki, Bio

Introduction :

• Ashton Pienaar is a professional yacht deckhand and a reality star known for appearing on the TV show Below Deck.
• The show follows the crew of the yacht ‘Seanna’ as they take on challenges arising from managing a yacht & taking care of their clients on board. Each episode of the show features a different group of passengers as they head out for an oceanic adventure.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

• Ashton Pienaar was born on June 16, 1989, in South Africa. He did his schooling in Fourways and graduated from Glenvista High School.
• He went on to do his Bachelors at the University of Johannesburg and earned a degree in Entrepreneurial Management.
• As a young boy, Pienaar represented his country in JKA Karate fighting style. While growing up, he cultivated an active interest in sports and went on to captaining teams in cricket and rugby at provincial levels.
• He also prepared for competing in bodybuilding and CrossFit competitions.

Career before Reality TV : Salary and Net Worth

• After graduation, Ashton worked as a Senior Verification Analyst at Simunye for two years.
• He left that job to be a production manager for Frog Productions. This was his first step into the world of entertainment.
• He worked for Frog Production till he accepted a job at Oomph! Africa as a client service & sales manager.
• It was during this time that Ashton really wanted to break out of his desk jobs work life. He signed up for yacht training in the South of France and then joined the Gene Machine crew as a deckhand and Personal Trainer.

“Below Deck” Appearance :

• Ashton Pienaar joined the crew of “Seanna” as a deckhand in season 6 of the reality show Below Deck.
• He became quite well-known for his ‘bromance’ with another crewmember, Ross Inia. Ashton attributed their strong friendship to their sports and rugby backgrounds. He said that he and Ross balance each other out and were the voice of reason to each other whenever someone seemed to be heading towards a bad decision. The duo continues to keep in touch even after the season ended.
• An onboard romance was brewing up during the entire season between Ashton and Laura Betancourt. They had spent a few nights together and every other colleague knew that there was something there.
• They walked off the boat together at the end of season and it seemed like they had the best chance of surviving on land after the show. However, at the season’s reunion, Laura said they were just dear friends with Ashton sharing similar sentiments.

Near Death Injury & Accident :

• In episode 11 of the season, Ashton suffered a near death experience on the yacht.
• After he stepped on the line to tow the tender, the line quickly wrapped around his ankle and dragged him off the yacht and into the water.
• One of the cameramen, Brent who was filming this put down his camera and was able to help in getting the line loose so that Ashton was free and could swim to the tender for safety.
• If Brent hadn’t been there, then the line would have tightened and it would mostly likely have had seceded Ashton’s foot and he would have bled to death before anyone could get to him.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

• Anyone can book a shout out video from Ashton on the website Cameo. Ashton himself has advertised this on his Instagram.
• He has two younger siblings, Trent and Kendy who are seen sometimes on his social media posts.
• Pienaar underwent firefighting training that was included in his yachties course.

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