Experience

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  Underwater Video Services

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Owner and underwater cameraman

    • Jan 1990 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Founded in 1990. We offer underwater filming, systems development and general marine logistics to the TV and film industry. Charles won an Emmy Award 2002 for work done on the BBC's Blue Planet. Charles has also worked on the BBC's "Planet Earth", "Africa: Cape" and "Sharks" series.Charles has also worked on many other productions for the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, French TV, German TV, Japanese TV, Australian TV etc.Our flagship underwater filming rig is a Sony F55 4K camera in a Gates housing. We have other cameras, polecams, towcams (all full HD), diving boats, compressors, specialist shark cages and much more to make your filming in South Africa easier and better. We offer filming permit applications and other services.We also offer a full professional diving service and comply with the Department of Labour's Professional Diving Regulations. Clients include Marine consulting engineers, Eskom, Telkom etc. Charles planned and synchronised the first dive in a nuclear facility in 1988. Since then he has been head of nuclear diving teams working at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station and the Safari Test Reactor in Pretoria. All dives have been successful with the minimum of radiation exposure and contamination.

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  Koeberg Power Station

  • Head of Marine and Civil Section

    • Jan 1977 - Jan 1990

    Marine environmental surveys, monitoring and underwater maintenance. Breakwater stability monitoring and photographic surveys.Marine technician, diving supervisor and underwater cameraman.

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  University of Cape Town

  • Head of Eskom Research Unit, Dept. of Oceanography

    • Jan 1972 - Jan 1977

    Pre-construction oceanographic site investigations for the Koeberg Power Station. Diving Supervisor.