{"id":502601,"date":"2026-03-04T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:26:07","slug":"death-of-deadliest-catch-todd-meadows-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502601\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of &#8216;Deadliest Catch&#8217; Todd Meadows under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/deadliest-catch-todd-meadows-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">death of<\/a> \u201cDeadliest Catch\u201d fisherman Todd Meadows is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscg.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S. Coast Guard<\/a> representative told the Daily News the body of the rookie deckhand who fell overboard last week off the coast of Alaska was released by the Anchorage Medical Examiner\u2019s Office Monday after an autopsy was performed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Juneau were notified late Wednesday afternoon that Meadows fell from the the Aleutian Lady fishing boat in the Bering Sea.<\/p>\n<p>When first responders reportedly located Meadows 10 minutes later, they unsuccessfully attempted to resuscitate the 25-year-old victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the nation\u2019s leading marine safety organization, the Coast Guard investigates marine casualties and accidents to uncover their causes and initiate necessary corrective actions,\u201d a Public Affairs Officer said in a statement sent Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast guard didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery Channel program <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/deadliest-catch-todd-meadows-dies-during-filming-1236741571\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was filming its 22nd season<\/a> at the time of Meadows\u2019 death, according to Deadline. Production on upcoming season of \u201cDeadliest Catch\u201d has reportedly concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of \u201cDeadliest Catch\u201d fisherman Todd Meadows is under investigation. A U.S. Coast Guard representative told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[37431,17237,56149,8609,88,229015,92],"class_list":["post-502601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cause","tag-coast-guard","tag-deadliest-catch","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-tood-meadows","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502601","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=502601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}