{"id":568415,"date":"2026-04-06T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:33:08","slug":"deadliest-catch-deckhand-todd-meadows-cause-of-death-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568415\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Deadliest Catch’ Deckhand Todd Meadows’ Cause Of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe official cause of death has been determined for Deadliest Catch<\/a> deckhand Todd Meadows<\/a>. According to his death certificate obtained by TMZ<\/a>, Meadows died from \u201cdrowning with probable hypothermia\u201d and \u201csubmersion of body in cold water\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeadows was pronounced dead at 5:15 PM on February 25 in an \u201caccident\u201d aboard the Aluetian [sic] Lady crab vessel in the Bering Sea. according to the document. Meadows had been working on the Aleutian Lady, one of the vessels filmed for the long-running show, fishing for crabs on the Bering Sea. It had previously been reported that Meadows had fallen overboard but details were not clear. The Coast Guard has been investigating Meadows\u2019 death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOn February 25, 2026, at 5:05 p.m. local Alaska time, Coast Guard watchstanders at the Arctic District command center in Juneau received notification from the fishing vessel Aleutian Lady, reporting that a crew member by the name of Todd Meadows fell overboard approximately 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor,\u201d read the statement from the federal agency. \u201cHe was recovered unresponsive by the crew approximately ten minutes later. First aid and attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful,\u00a0and the crew\u00a0transported the deceased to Dutch Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline understands that\u00a0Deadliest Catch\u00a0was 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. It 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

\n\tShelford, who has starred on the show since Season 19, called Meadow\u2019s death the \u201cmost tragic day in the history of the Aleutian Lady\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tSafety on the Aleutian Lady has been a source of unscripted drama on\u00a0Deadliest Catch\u00a0before, prompting Sean Dwyer\u2019s departure from the vessel before he was set to co-captain a trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official cause of death has been determined for Deadliest Catch deckhand Todd Meadows. According to his death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[56149,88,228784,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-568415","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\/568415","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=568415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}