Deadliest Catch Deckhand Dies in Bering Sea Fall

A deckhand featured on the Discovery Channel's reality series Deadliest Catch died after falling overboard from a crab fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Tuesday.

Todd Meadows, 25, from Montesano, Washington, was working aboard the Aleutian Lady when the incident occurred on February 25. The Coast Guard received a notification from the vessel shortly after 5 p.m. that Meadows had gone overboard approximately 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Crew members recovered him unresponsive about ten minutes later, according to Chief Petty Officer Travis Magee, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard's Arctic District. Resuscitation efforts failed, and the crew transported his body to Dutch Harbor. The Coast Guard has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fall.

Meadows was in his first season as a cast member on Deadliest Catch, which has chronicled the perilous lives of crab fishermen in Alaska's unforgiving waters since premiering in 2005. He joined the show last May, but no episodes from the current season have aired. Captain Rick Shelford of the Aleutian Lady described the loss in a social media post, writing, "We lost our...