Underwater Filming Services

Here is how this works in practice. Dive shooting in Peru works across three distinct water bands that almost no other country can match in a single production schedule — the cold, plankton-rich Humboldt Today's off the Paracas peninsula and Ballestas Islands where sea lions, Humboldt penguins, and dense marine life concentrate; the high-altitude freshwater of Lake Titicaca at 3,812m where reduced-pressure dive tables and dry-suit protocols apply; and the black-water Amazon tributaries around Puerto Maldonado in Madre de Dios where pink river dolphins, caiman, and submerged-forest sequences play out in low-visibility tannic water.

Here is the short of it. Our operators hold PADI Divemaster or Instructor ratings, SSI equivalents, and where the brief demands it, commercial CMAS Three-Star or HSE-equivalent qualifications, with documented logbooks across all three environments. Pool and tank work is delivered through Lima's San Isidro, Miraflores, and La Molina pool venues for controlled fashion, commercial, music-video, and stunt-coordinated narrative sequences with trained water-safety coordinators on standby.

Here is the breakdown. Camera packages standardise around Nauticam, Gates, and SeaSeed housings for ARRI Alexa Mini LF, RED Komodo and V-Raptor, and Sony Venice 2 and FX6 bodies — typically imported under SUNAT ATA carnets and cleared through customs in advance of the shoot date, with deposit and bond paperwork handled inside the production budget. Underwater lighting runs through Keldan 8X and Light & Motion Sola packages for marine work, plus larger HMI-in-housing rigs for tank and pool setups.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Every dive is preceded by a documented risk assessment, a written dive plan, surface support, and a certified safety diver in the water alongside the camera op. Marine work inside Paracas National Reserve needs SERNANP authorisation, Lake Titicaca shoots clear through regional autoridad nacional del agua paperwork, and Amazon tributary access is set up with riverboat operators out of Puerto Maldonado who handle gear transport, lodging, and dive logistics for multi-day expeditions.