Underwater Filming Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our underwater roster works HMI-rated certified operators (PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and IANTD Technical Diver minimums) running Gates housings for ARRI Alexa Mini LF and Sony Venice 2, Nauticam housings for RED Komodo and Komodo X plus mirrorless A7S III and Canon R5, SeaLife and Paralenz Vaquita action cubes for talent-eyeline POV, and Hydroflex S2-A surface-supplied splash bags for over-under wave-line work.

Here is what we have to work with. Lighting routes through Keldan Video 8X CRI 96+ at fifteen-thousand lumens, Light & Motion Sola 9600, Big Blue VL series, and Bigblue VTL12000P for cave and wreck lighting, with HMI-rated DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle) Suex VRT and Bonex Discovery scooters for tracking shots. Regional dive partners route Haliotis Peniche (Berlengas archipelago), Cresmina Cascais (Cabo Raso wreck dives), Madeira Diving Center Funchal (whale shark and short-finned pilot whale encounters), and Azores Sub Pico (volcanic vent sites and blue-shark cage-free encounters).

Here is the short of it. Location applications cover Algarve coast (Praia da Marinha sea caves named Benagil and Carvoeiro grottoes, Lagos Ponta da Piedade rock formations, Sagres cliffs at Cabo de São Vicente), Madeira archipelago (whale-watching from Funchal — sperm whales, bottlenose dolphins, short-finned pilot whales year-round Atlantic Gulf Stream warming sustains fifteen-to-twenty-five Celsius water), Azores archipelago (São Miguel Vila Franca do Campo islet caldera, Pico Island Vineyards UNESCO 2004 volcanic underwater landscapes, blue whales and sei whales seasonal migration April-June, sperm whales year-round), Berlengas Marine Reserve (Peniche coast, classified UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 2011), and Nazaré (Praia do Norte giant-wave storm captures with eighty-six-foot world record by Garrett McNamara 2011. Atlantic system peak November-February).

Here is the layout. Permit chains route through Capitania de Porto for maritime operations clearance, DGRM (Direção-Geral de Recursos Naturais Segurança e Serviços Marítimos), ICNF for covered-species and Marine Protected Area sign-off, Marinha Portuguesa planning for surf-zone safety, and ANEPC emergency-preparedness. ICA cash-rebates qualifying spend, IVA twenty-three percent, ATA carnet, and Segurança Social compliance routes through our production-services partners.