It's the biggest and forgotten border of the British Isles; an unforgiving, storm-whipped expanse of the Atlantic Ocean where fierce winds, forty-foot swells and water so cold that it can kill you in minutes is the norm for six months of the year. But this expanse of water is also home to a community of half a million people who depend on it for their very existence. Trawlers, Rigs and Rescue is the everyday story of their extraordinary lives. Virgin 1 offers mainstream, mass-appeal programming across a lively range of genres.
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