Underwater Filming

Here is how this works in practice. Our underwater packages route ARRI Alexa Mini LF and Sony Venice 2 in Gates Deep Weapon and Nauticam NA-VENICE-2 cinema housings rated to ninety meters, RED Komodo and Komodo X in Nauticam NA-KX2 housings, plus mirrorless A7S III, Canon R5 C, and Sony FX3 in Nauticam NA-A7SIII and NA-R5C for lighter run-and-gun documentary captures. Lensing complement runs Nauticam Wide Angle Conversion Port WACP-C and WACP-1 (water-contact optics with 130-degree underwater field of view), 8.5-inch dome ports for fisheye-and-wide, plus N100 Macro port for 105-millimeter Sigma Art.

Here is how the picture comes together. Lighting routes Keldan Video 8X CRI 96+ at fifteen-thousand lumens with twelve-thousand-Kelvin daylight balance, Light & Motion Sola 9600, Big Blue VL series, plus Bigblue VTL12000P for cave-and-wreck lighting at the Algarve sea caves. Diver-Propulsion-Car (DPV) Suex VRT and Bonex Discovery scooters for tracking shots, plus surface-supplied air (SSA) hookah systems for talent-with-cinematographer choreographed scenes.

Here is the short of it. Location applications cover Algarve coast (Praia da Marinha and Carvoeiro Benagil sea caves — the iconic Benagil Cave with its naturally-collapsed dome roof opening to sky has become one of Europe's most-photographed natural landmarks, 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 temperatures), Azores archipelago (São Miguel Vila Franca do Campo islet caldera, Pico Island Vineyards UNESCO 2004 volcanic underwater landscapes with the world's largest seasonal blue-whale concentrations April-June, Terceira Angra do Heroísmo UNESCO 1983), Berlengas Marine Reserve (Peniche coast UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 2011 with grouper and conger eel populations), and Nazaré Praia do Norte giant-wave Atlantic storm captures (Garrett McNamara eighty-six-foot world record 2011). Capitania de Porto, DGRM, ICNF Marine Protected Area sign-off, Marinha Portuguesa surf-zone-safety planning, ANEPC emergency-preparedness, IPMA Atlantic-weather forecasting, ICA cash-rebates qualifying spend, IVA twenty-three percent, ATA carnet, and Segurança Social compliance routes through our production-services partners.