New details have surfaced in the tragic death of Deadliest Catch deckhand Todd Meadows. Meadows passed away on February 25 while filming the new season.
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Fellow deckhand Trey John Green III told Page Six that the weather was actually calm on the day Meadows passed away. The temperature outside was just below freezing. According to Green, the Deadliest Catch deckhand went overboard after an issue with a crab pot.
"I see Todd. He's floating, he's swimming. He's got huge baby blue eyes. And I can still, probably from like 100 yards away, I could still see his eyes looking around," Green recalled. Captain Rick Shelford worked to turn the boat around while Green kept an eye on Meadows.
'Deadliest Catch' Deckhand Dies
"Todd's still alive, he's still swimming, he's still trying to hang in there. We get next to him, and then Steve [Porter] — Steve is the — every boat has a designated rescue swimmer for this exact kind of scenario. Steve was already geared up and was already in the diving suit," Green told us. "When Steve jumped in the water, the harness that was attached to the crane actually broke."
Porter managed to get Meadows into a sling and halfway out of the water when he fell back in.
"The second time we went to go lift him up, Todd was just — he was lifeless," Green lamented. "He didn't have any more — like I said, the first time, he was fighting, trying to get onto the sling. And then the second time, he was just — he was lifeless."
Green says that Meadows was only in the water for three or four minutes. According to Green, the Deadliest Catch crew began to perform CPR.
"We finally brought him inside and continued CPR. The boat has an AED [machine] ... it's basically a defibrillator. And we tried to use that, too, and it just — nothing was working. And finally, finally, after a half hour, 45 minutes of trying to save him, Captain came down and said, 'Guys, it's not gonna work,'" Green recalled.
Sadly, according to Green, they did everything they could.
