What's that got to do with finding decent presenters today?
These guys were only on ships because it was illegal to broadcast any form of radio, other than the BBC, from British soil - ergo, they found a loophole in the law.
The law, as you well know, changed with legislation that dates back to 1967, effectively outlawing any workable offshore tender that isn't being totally fuelled and staffed from, for example, the USA.
You could broadcast from Holland a la RNI I suppose but, unlike the 70s, AM signals are no longer commercially viable.
And considering that the USA is in deep recession, I think that the return of a 1980's Lazer-style business model (that station roughly conformed to the Marine Offences {Broadcasting} Act), chugging around the North Sea on expensive oil, is extremely unlikely.

What's more, the likelihood of any business employing well-rounded, talented individuals from the UK who don't mind breaking the law and are prepared to live the life of rookie marines is, I would say, zero.

So to 'Bring back offshore radio' is, relative to today's market, the same as bringing back the Second World War so we can watch Vera Lynn knocking spots off the latest whiny X-factor auditionee.

I don't undertand your logic...

Oh, come on here RTD259, please, and tell him - I'm really not getting through!

No mate, and you aint going to get through... Radio today is "CRAP" Commercial Radio, what we fought for is utter crap.... All the Independent Stations have almalgamated, so no free choice... It all goes down to profits!

I dont think "RTD can argue with that mate?

And your point is?
Why the Hell do I bother?
(And, as Dicken would say, I'm not your mate.)

So I give up!!!

In answer to Paul, Im not sure I understand what your trying to say. But I would bet given the same circimstances as were there in the sixties many young men would love to have a go. Those that slag it off are just envious they were not part of it.

The only really oustanding offshore DJs I recall from that era were John Peel and Kenny Everett. The rest were either good or nothing special or even annoyng in the case of Tony Blacburn. Mike Dickin started radio life at the BBC.

And Mike Allen, Roger Day, Johnny Walker, Emperor Rosko, Andy Archer etc

Was Fluff ever a pirate DJ?

I heard that Robin Gibb song the other day Allan Freeman Days.

Very good. Not Arf pop pickers.

Dave Cash...

Well didn't that decade pass quickly?

Shame Mike never lived to see (and broadcast about) the Scottish referendum, coalition government, Obama, London Olympics, Brexit, Trump, Ukraine, 7/7, Paris, collapsing oil prices affecting petrol prices, two mahoosive new air craft carriers with no air craft and god knows what else has happened over the last ten years.

As someone who loved France but not the EU, I'm sure he would have loved watching Brexit unfold and the emotional aftermath of it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6192307.stm

I heard his last broadcast.

Still the best presenter ever!
There are so many pretenders around now!

So did I. He interviewed Richard Dawkins.

This is a better link with some tributes to him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6194773.stm