Deadliest Catch star Todd Meadows died after he fell overboard while crabbing on Feb. 25
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It was reported that he died while the show was filming
His mother, Angela, is requesting that no footage of his death make it to air
The mother of the lateDeadliest Catchstar Todd Meadows, Angela Meadows, is pleading with the Discovery Channel to not air footage of her son's tragic death.
Todd, 25, died on Feb. 25 while filmingDeadliest Catch,TMZpreviously reported. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that Todd fell overboard while crabbing approximately 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor, near Unalaska, Alaska,PEOPLEpreviously reported.
The crew recovered him "unresponsive" around 10 minutes later, and the "first aid and attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful," per the U.S. Coast Guard.
Todd's captain, Rick Shelford, announced his death on Monday, March 2,in a lengthy Facebooktribute.
On Wednesday, March 4, Angela said the family doesn't "want to see any footage from the accident,"TMZreported.
"[We] do not want Discovery to air any of that footage or make money off of our son's death," Angela told TMZ. "We hope they only air good things of Todd on that boat."
"No parent would want the world to watch their child die," Meadows said in a statement, perAlaska's News Source.
Angela requested footage from Todd's time on the boat so the family could "have the videos for memories," TMZ reported.
Deadliest Catchis a long-running reality series about the high-stakes world of crab fishing. The series first premiered in 2005 and season 21 concluded in October 2025.
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Angela says she wants "his memory to be a good memory everywhere." "It never mattered what anybody had to say about him, good or bad," she told TMZ. "He wasn't out there to make friends. He wasn't out there to click with people. He was just out there to work and to do what he loved."
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Shortly after his death, Todd's family created aGoFundMepage to assist with the unexpected expenses and help his three sons, with whom he was a "determined dad."
"[The] three amazing little boys who were his entire world. Everything he did was for them — their smiles, their futures, and the memories they will carry with them," the page read. "This unimaginable loss has left his children without their father, his parents without their son, his siblings without their brother and his family broken."
Todd's sister, Mackenzie, said, "No words put together can even describe the pain we're going through and will continue to,"Us Weeklyreported. "His boys will see him through pictures, and we will see him through his boys."
His father, Lucas, remembered him as someone who "always had a smile," per Alaska's News Source. Lucas said that Todd started fishing with him when he was 3 years old, and that fishing was a "passion of his, his whole life."
"He had a smile on his face the whole time," Lucas said. "Good day, bad day, didn't matter... He loved to fish and loved to watch other people fish."
The Coast Guard previously confirmed in a statement shared with PEOPLE that officials are "currently investigating this situation."
"As the nation's leading marine safety organization, the Coast Guard investigates marine casualties and accidents to uncover their causes and initiate necessary corrective actions," the statement read.
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