Deadliest Catch is returning to Discovery and is addressing the sad passing of deckhand Todd Meadows, who died during production.
The series returns to the cable network at 8 p.m. Friday, May 8. Watch the trailer below.
Meadows was working on the Aleutian Lady, one of the vessels filmed for the long-running show, fishing for crabs on the Bering Sea at the time of his death on February 25. The official cause ofdeath was “drowning with probable hypothermia” and “submersion of body in cold water.”
The show, which is produced by Fremantle’s Original Productions, was in production when the incident occurred, and production concluded shortly thereafter as the Aleutian Lady was the last of the vessels still at sea.
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The show will address “tragedy of his passing with care and honor his memory” but will not show his death
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