{"id":729,"date":"2026-03-03T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=729"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:26:26","slug":"deadliest-catch-star-passed-away-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deadliest Catch\u2019 Star Passed Away At 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"383\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Todd Meadows<\/span><\/span>, a 25-year-old deckhand who appeared on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Deadliest Catch<\/span><\/span>, died on Feb. 25, Captain <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rick Shelford<\/span><\/span> announced on Facebook. Shelford said Meadows, the newest member of the <em data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"266\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Aleutian Lady<\/em> crew, quickly became family and was known for his strong work ethic, love for fishing, and devotion to his children.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"556\">No official cause of death has been confirmed, but TMZ reported it was allegedly a fishing-related incident during filming. It\u2019s unclear whether it was captured on camera.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"558\" data-end=\"742\">The long-running Discovery Channel series, which debuted in 2005 and most recently aired Season 25 in August 2025, follows crab fishermen facing dangerous conditions in the Bering Sea.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"808\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A GoFundMe created in Meadows\u2019 memory has raised nearly $15,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Todd Meadows, a 25-year-old deckhand who appeared on Deadliest Catch, died on Feb. 25, Captain Rick Shelford announced on Facebook. Shelford said Meadows, the newest <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=729\" title=\"\u2018Deadliest Catch\u2019 Star Passed Away At 25\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}