更新于：2026年3月4日 / 美国东部时间下午1:47 / CBS/美联社
美国海岸警卫队周二表示，真人秀节目《致命捕捞》（该节目记录了在全球最恶劣环境之一中作业的捕蟹渔民的生活）的一名甲板水手在被报告落水后死亡。
海岸警卫队北极区发言人特拉维斯·马吉首席准尉在电子邮件中表示，2月25日下午5点刚过不久，海岸警卫队就收到了”阿留申夫人号”渔船的通知，称船员托德·梅多斯在阿拉斯加荷兰港以北约170英里处落水。”大约十分钟后，船员将他救起时已无反应，”马吉写道。对梅多斯的抢救无效，船员将他的遗体运送至荷兰港，他说。
海岸警卫队正在对此事展开调查。
来自华盛顿州蒙特萨诺的梅多斯是《探索频道》节目新一季的首位演员。他去年5月加入该系列，但新一季的剧集尚未播出。
“我们失去了我们的兄弟，”阿留申夫人号船长里克·谢尔福德在社交媒体帖子中表示，文中未详细说明梅多斯的死因。谢尔福德称这是”白令海阿留申夫人号历史上最悲惨的一天”。梅多斯是船上最新的一员，但很快就成了家人的一份子，谢尔福德写道。”托德对孩子、家人和生活的热爱体现在他所做的每一件事上。他勤奋工作，深爱他人，并给周围的人带来欢乐，”谢尔福德写道。
探索频道发布的一份声明称，梅多斯的去世”令人悲痛的损失，在这个极其艰难的时刻，我们的心与他的亲人、船员以及整个渔业社区同在。”
“托德大概从三岁起就和我一起从事渔业，”托德的父亲卢卡斯·梅多斯向阿拉斯加新闻来源表示，”这是他一生的热爱”。
截至周三，一个线上筹款活动已筹集近4万美元，用于帮助梅多斯的家人（包括他的三个儿子），并支付葬礼费用和其他开支。筹款活动称，25岁的梅多斯是在阿拉斯加海域从事他最热爱的捕蟹工作时去世的。”他是三个了不起的小男孩的坚定父亲，这三个男孩是他的整个世界，”GoFundMe网站称，”他所做的一切都是为了他们——他们的笑容、他们的未来以及他们将铭记的回忆。”
这起死亡事件是该节目中描述白令海危险捕蟹作业的演员成员的最新一起死亡事件。该节目于2005年首播。
根据其讣告，2021年，30岁的船员托德·科丘廷在渔船”帕特里夏·李号”上受伤后死亡。其他几名演员成员因药物滥用或自然原因去世，其中包括”科尼莉亚·玛丽号”渔船船长菲尔·哈里斯，据美国国家公共广播电台报道，他于2010年因严重中风去世，享年53岁。
“Deadliest Catch” deckhand Todd Meadows dies after falling overboard in Alaska, Coast Guard says
Updated on: March 4, 2026 / 1:47 PM EST / CBS/AP
A deckhand on the reality television show “Deadliest Catch,” which documents the lives of crab fishermen working in one of the world’s harshest environments, died after he was reported to have fallen overboard, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
The Coast Guard received a notification shortly after 5 p.m. Feb. 25 from the Aleutian Lady that crew member Todd Meadows had fallen overboard about 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Chief Petty Officer Travis Magee, a spokesperson with the Coast Guard’s Arctic District, said by email Tuesday.
“He was recovered unresponsive by the crew approximately ten minutes later,” Magee wrote. Efforts to resuscitate Meadows were unsuccessful, and the crew brought his body to Dutch Harbor, he said.
The Coast Guard is investigating.
Meadows, from Montesano, Washington, was in his first year as a cast member of the Discovery Channel show. He joined the series last May but no episodes for the new season have aired.
“We lost our brother,” Aleutian Lady Capt. Rick Shelford said in a social media post that did not detail how Meadows died. Shelford called it the “most tragic day in the history of the Aleutian Lady on the Bering Sea.”
Meadows was the newest member of the boat’s crew but quickly became family, Shelford wrote.
“Todd’s love for his children, his family, and his life was evident in everything he did. He worked hard, loved deeply, and brought joy to those around him,” Shelford wrote.
A statement released by the Discovery Channel called Meadows’ death “a devastating loss, and our hearts are with his loved ones, his crewmates, and the entire fishing community during this incredibly difficult time.”
“Todd got involved with fishing with me probably from the time he was three,” Lucas Meadows, Todd’s father, told Alaska’s News Source. “It’s been a passion of his, his whole life.”
An online fundraiser had brought in nearly $40,000 by Wednesday to assist Meadows’ family, including his three sons, and pay for funeral costs and other expenses. The fundraiser said Meadows, 25, died what doing what he loved best: crabbing on Alaska waters.
“He was a determined dad to three amazing little boys who were his entire world,” the GoFundMe site said. “Everything he did was for them — their smiles, their futures, and the memories they will carry with them.”
The death is the latest for cast members of the show detailing dangerous crab fishing on the Bering Sea. The show first aired in 2005.
In 2021, crewman Todd Kochutin, 30, died as a result of injuries he received while aboard the fishing vessel Patricia Lee, according to his obituary.
Several other cast members have died of substance abuse or natural causes. They include Capt. Phil Harris of the fishing vessel Cornelia Marie, who died in 2010 at age 53 following a massive stroke, NPR reported.
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