{"id":613696,"date":"2026-09-27T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613696\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:14:09","slug":"deadliest-catch-star-todd-meadows-final-words-to-his-children-moments-before-his-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613696\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadliest Catch star Todd Meadows\u2019 final words to his children moments before his death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cOh, I\u2019m being safe,\u201d Meadows replied.<\/p>\n
Moments after that call, he fell to his death.<\/p>\n
Todd Meadows was the newest member of the Aleutian Lady crew. Photo \/ Paige Knutson<\/p>\n
During a confessional, he had told producers that joining the crew had been one of his \u201cdreams and goals\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m up here to make it and to try to support my family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meadows, whose children were only aged 1, 2 and 4 at the time, said it was \u201ca heart-wrencher\u201d to work on the boat away from family because his youngest don\u2019t understand why he is gone.<\/p>\n
The confessional scene aired during the finale just before the show aired the moments right after he fell into the sea, showing the crew\u2019s desperate attempts to rescue him.<\/p>\n
Todd Meadows died while fishing on the Bering Sea. Photo \/ Rick Shelford<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old died of \u201cdrowning with probable hypothermia\u201d and \u201csubmersion of body in cold water,\u201d according to his death certificate.<\/p>\n
Deadliest Catch is set in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia, one of the most dangerous places in the world to fish, according to National Geographic. In winter, the water temperature goes below freezing, the air nears -10C and the boats are buffeted by howling winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOh, I\u2019m being safe,\u201d Meadows replied. Moments after that call, he fell to his death. Todd Meadows was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9218,1068,1061,76386,634,6179,156,13989,5904,293,5511,128347,9062,111,139,69,17091,12860,19098,44970,2737,2846,61,22505,6859,26157],"class_list":["post-613696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-before","tag-catch","tag-children","tag-deadliest","tag-death","tag-died","tag-entertainment","tag-fell","tag-final","tag-his","tag-just","tag-meadows","tag-moments","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overboard","tag-revealed","tag-safe","tag-spoke","tag-star","tag-them","tag-to","tag-todd","tag-told","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}