Riviera Life.tv - Tom Anderson Radio Caroline Mi Amigo sinks

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Local resident Tom Anderson was on board one of the original Radio Caroline ships from the 60s, the Mi Amigo, when it sank on March 20th 1980, broadcasting until the last minute. In this video Tom, a former programme director at Riviera Radio, recounts the dramatic events of that fateful day and the difficult rescue by the Sheerness lifeboat in a force 9 gale in the North Sea. Just over three years later, Tom was the first voice on the air when Radio Caroline returned from a bigger ship, the former record breaking trawler Ross Revenge. In 1986 Tom joined Sunshine Radio in Antibes and later Riviera Radio in Monaco. The new Richard Curtis movie 'The Boat That Rocked' has rekindled interest in the offshore radio stations.

Radio Caroline continues to this day. After running aground on the Goodwin Sands in the Thames Estuary in 1990 and punitive new legislation, Caroline gave up her seafaring days in 1991. The Ross Revenge is now being restored in Tilbury Docks, and Caroline now broadcasts from studios in Kent on Sky 0199 and the Internet.

Rob the pirate!

Local DJs Rob Harrison (pictured) and Mark Dezzani are also Radio Caroline 'good guys.' Riviera Radio's morning man Rob Harrison broadcast on Caroline from the Ross Revenge in the late 1980s, and Riviera Radio freelancer Mark Dezzani broadcasts a weekly programme Sunday nights at midnight CET from his studio in the Ancient Principality of Seborga. Watch out for a video interview with Rob about his seafaring days as a floating DJ coming soon!

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