Days after the February 25 death of Deadliest Catch star Todd Meadows, fellow deckhand Trey John Green III has opened up about that tragic day.
Green told Page Six in a new interview that the Bering Sea water was “calm” but “only a degree or two above freezing” that afternoon as the Aleutian Lady fishing vessel operated about 170 miles north of Alaska’s Dutch Harbor.
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