Miami · Underwater
Underwater Filming, Miami.
Underwater days fail topside. The divers are fine — it is the surface coordination that breaks. Nobody knows what the camera below is seeing, the comms are a rope and a hand signal, and the footage is not reviewed until everyone is back on the dock and the light is gone.
Included
What you get
- —RC submersibles deployed and recovered from the vessel, not from a second boat.
- —Wireless diver communications, run from the topside command position.
- —Multi-camera underwater rigs kept on one timecode with the surface units.
- —Live review in the on-board DIT Dark Room — you see what came back before the divers are out of the water.
- —Sanctuary and permit coordination for Biscayne National Park and Florida Keys protected zones.
The Reframe
The dive boat and the camera boat should be the same boat
Standard practice puts the dive team on one vessel and the surface camera on another, coordinating by radio and hoping the timecode matches. Every handoff between two boats is a place for the day to lose twenty minutes.
The Basilisk runs both from one hull. The underwater unit is deployed off the same deck the camera arm works from, and both feed the same Dark Room, where a DIT is watching in real time and calling it. When the surface shot and the below-surface shot have to cut together, they were graded together, on the water, the same afternoon.
FAQ
Questions
Do you supply the divers or just the boat?+
The Basilisk is a command and coordination platform — RC submersibles, wireless diver comms and topside coordination run from the vessel. We work with client-supplied dive teams and can coordinate Miami-area underwater operators for productions that need them sourced.
Do you handle permits for filming in protected waters?+
Yes. We coordinate USCG, City of Miami, Miami-Dade, Miami Beach, Biscayne National Park and Florida Keys sanctuary-zone permitting as part of the shoot planning.
Can underwater and surface footage be matched on the day?+
Yes — that is what the on-board DIT Dark Room is for. Underwater and surface feeds are kept on one timecode and graded live in a climate-controlled blackout suite on the vessel, so matching problems get caught while the boat is still on the water.