Deadliest Catch Season 22 Premiere Features Jake Anderson Divorce Announcement and Tribute to Deceased Deckhand

Jake Anderson announced his divorce from Jenna Anderson during the Season 22 premiere of Deadliest Catch, which aired Friday night on the Discovery Channel. "After 17 years being together, 13 years married, Jenna and I have decided to call it quits," the 45-year-old said in the episode filmed last fall. Jake Anderson and Jenna Anderson separated eight months before the episode was filmed.

The couple have three children: sons Aiden, 11, and Luka, 6, and daughter Cadence, 8. The pair met in 2009 at a festival in Seattle. Jake Anderson previously told Screener TV that Jenna and her family asked him for an autograph.

"I autographed [her item with], ‘You’re beautiful,’" he recalled. Jake Anderson was living on the boat when he met Jenna Anderson. He said the pair "fell in love" after they talked on the phone for several weeks.

They tied the knot in 2012, with fellow fishing captain Sig Hansen officiating the wedding ceremony. m. ET on the Discovery Channel. The premiere will include a tribute to deckhand Todd Meadows, who died after falling overboard in February.

Todd Meadows was 25 years old at the time of his death. His cause of death was "drowning with probable hypothermia" and "submersion of body in cold water," according to his death certificate.

Todd Meadows’ death certificate was released last month. com reported the details of Anderson’s announcement and the tribute to Meadows in its coverage of the Season 22 premiere.