Overview
- Discovery, which announced the plan Thursday, set a May 8 Season 22 premiere that opens with a tribute to deckhand Todd Meadows.
- Producers will not air footage of his death out of respect for his family, even though the Aleutian Lady had cameras running during the incident.
- Officials listed the cause as drowning with probable hypothermia after Meadows fell overboard on February 25 about 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor and was recovered unresponsive roughly 10 minutes later.
- Meadows joined the Aleutian Lady in May 2025 and will still appear in scenes filmed before the accident, with production wrapping soon after since that boat was the last at sea.
- This season shifts the fleet 225 miles to St. George Island to chase a rare Red King Crab, a move that brings colder weather and rougher seas and underscores the dangers the series documents.