{"id":229751,"date":"2026-04-07T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-details-emerge-on-deadliest-catch-star-todd-meadows-cause-of-death\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:14:53","slug":"nigeria-details-emerge-on-deadliest-catch-star-todd-meadows-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-details-emerge-on-deadliest-catch-star-todd-meadows-cause-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Details Emerge On Deadliest Catch Star Todd Meadows&#8217; Cause of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A month following the death of Todd Meadows, 25, a cast member of the famous reality series Deadliest Catch, in a fishing accident, his cause of death has been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Meadows, who featured as a deckhand on the Discovery Channel series, died from &#8220;drowning with probable hypothermia&#8221; and &#8220;submersion of body in cold water,&#8221; his death certificate, issued March 6, and obtained by TMZ on Monday, April 6, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The document shows that an autopsy was carried out, and the cause of death was ultimately&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070432.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month following the death of Todd Meadows, 25, a cast member of the famous reality series Deadliest Catch, in a fishing accident, his cause of death has been disclosed. Meadows, who featured as a deckhand on the Discovery Channel series, died from &#8220;drowning with probable hypothermia&#8221; and &#8220;submersion of body in cold water,&#8221; his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12256,15439,6974,5737,9988,54110,257,4687,393,254,10128,14043],"class_list":["post-229751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catch","tag-deadliest","tag-death","tag-details","tag-emerge","tag-meadows","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-todd"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}