{"id":504992,"date":"2026-03-05T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:40:09","slug":"deadliest-catch-star-suffered-concussion-on-boat-weeks-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504992\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deadliest Catch&#8217; Star Suffered Concussion On Boat Weeks Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Discovery Channel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/deadliest-catch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_deadliest-catch\" data-tag=\"deadliest-catch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadliest Catch<\/a> suspends filming after Aleutian Lady deckhand <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/todd-meadows\/\" id=\"auto-tag_todd-meadows\" data-tag=\"todd-meadows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Meadows<\/a>\u2018 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/deadliest-catch-todd-meadows-dies-during-filming-1236741571\/\">death at age 25<\/a>, his mom recently revealed that it wasn\u2019t his first accident on the boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Todd\u2019s death on Feb. 25, while he was crab fishing on the Bering Sea, his mother Angela Meadows noted that her son suffered another concussion aboard the vessel several weeks ago, and he was placed on temporary medical leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAngela told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/04\/todd-meadows-came-back-from-medical-leave-before-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> that Todd hit his head at the time and a doctor checked him out, per protocol. After the doctor confirmed he suffered a concussion, Todd was flown home to Washington so he could recover. He eagerly returned to work weeks later, after being medically cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe last photo I got of him was when he was building a fire,\u201d Angela told the outlet. \u201cHe was listening to music in the moment and was so happy. That\u2019s how I want to remember him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeadows was working on the Aleutian Lady, one of the vessels filmed for the long-running show, when he died on February 25, although details of the nature of his death were unclear at the time. The Coast Guard is currently investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Todd-Meadows.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Meadows\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTodd Meadows<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFacebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSafety on the Aleutian Lady has been a source of unscripted drama on Deadliest Catch before, sparking Sean Dwyer\u2019s departure from the vessel before he was set to co-captain a trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline understands that Deadliest Catch was in production on Season 22 when the incident occurred and the Aleutian Lady, led by Rick Shelford and his crew, was one of the vessels that was being captured for the show. We hear that production has subsequently concluded; the show was at the end of its production cycle when the accident occurred, with The Aleutian Lady being the last of the Season 22 vessels still at sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Discovery Channel\u2019s Deadliest Catch suspends filming after Aleutian Lady deckhand Todd Meadows\u2018 death at age 25, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[56149,88,228784,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-504992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-deadliest-catch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-todd-meadows","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504992","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=504992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}