Deadliest Catch star's final words to kids revealed before horror death
Deadliest Catch star's final words to kids revealed before horror death
Connor McCrorySun, September 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM UTC
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A Deadliest Catch crew member told his children he was "being safe" during his last video call -Credit:Facebook
A Deadliest Catch crew member told his children he was "being safe" during a video call shortly before he fell overboard and died in the Bering Sea, according to footage aired in the show's Season 22 finale.
The Discovery Channel episode, broadcast Friday, followed Todd Meadows in the days before and after the February accident aboard the Aleutian Lady. Meadows, 25, drowned and likely suffered hypothermia after going into the frigid Alaskan waters, authorities said.
In one segment, Meadows spoke with his family over FaceTime and promised his son a fishing trip once he got home. "I hope you're being safe," his daughter told him. "If you're not being safe, you better be safe." The news follows Lauren Sanchez's diamond state dinner necklace estimated to be worth eight figures.
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"Oh, I'm being safe," Meadows replied. The father of three, whose children are all younger than 5, said in a confessional interview that working on the crab boat had "been one of [his] dreams and goals."
"That's why I'm up here to make it and to try to support my family," he told producers.
Meadows described being away from his children as painful, saying the youngest ones could not understand why he had left.
In the video call, Meadows told his kids he was being safe -Credit:Facebook
The episode also showed the moments after he went overboard. Capt. Rick Shelford, hearing screams, asked the crew whether everyone was all right. When crew members said no, the vessel turned back to recover him.
Meadows spent more than six minutes in the water and was unresponsive when he was pulled aboard. Crew members performed CPR without success and then contacted the U.S. Coast Guard.
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His body was taken to Anchorage and cremated. He is survived by his wife and children.
Cameras filming the season recorded the accident. Deckhand Trey John Green III said soon afterward that the production had captured it from several vantage points.
"There's multiple angles. I mean, they got everything," Green said.
Green told Page Six in March that the sea was calm that day, with water temperatures "only a degree or two above freezing."
Meadows's mom, Angela Meadows, did not want the footage aired -Credit:Facebook
Meadows' mother, Angela Meadows, told TMZ in April that the family opposed airing any footage of the accident.
"We don't want to see any footage from the accident and do not want Discovery to air any of that footage or make money off of our son's death," she said. "We hope they only air good things of Todd on that boat."
She said the family had asked for recordings of her son crabbing at sea so they could remember him doing work he loved and "have the videos for memories."
A GoFundMe campaign started for Meadows' family had raised more than $87,000 toward a $90,000 goal.
The Bering Sea crab fishery is widely considered one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. Deadliest Catch has followed its crews since 2005.
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