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The news section shows just a sample of projects we have worked on recently in the last few years. Please click on the news items to view more details and photos

• 3/10 "Somali Kidnap" This reconstruction involved soucing various boats including a container ship at short notice

• 2/10 "Drebbel Submarine" Our replica rowed submarine we built and tested for the BBC has just finished an exhibition at

• 2/10 "BBC Dr Who" The new time lord ends up in Caerphilly castle moat on a Gondola! Stranger things have

• 1/10 "Laura Marling" This latest music video was shot next to the pier in Brighton with a sea swimmer.

• 12/09 "Devil's Playground" lots of zombies, stunts and free runners in this fast paced film.

• 11/09 "A Passionate Woman". Billy Piper stars in this period drama.

• 11/09 "Churchill Insurance" Jeff Capes the legendary shot putter and world strongest man canal boating with the Dog.

• 10/09 "Three Men in Irish Boats" Another outing for this popular TV show travelling from Dublin to the Arun Islands.

• 9/09 House boat salvage. MFS is an approved diving contractor and we still get involved with various salvage

• 9/09 "Survivors 2" Various water scenes that including the actors wading ashore.

• 9/09 "Great River Race" With hundreds of competitors in over 300 boats this 22 mile rowing marathon through

• 9/09 "Five Days 2" A swimming pool scene with David Morrissey with underwater shots of him diving in.

• 8/09 "Cosi" Sarah Brightman is among the cast of singers who bring their tallents to the screen in this Opera based film.

• 7/09 "Victoria Woods Xmas Special" Team GB beating team Ghana in the Olympic pedalows!

• 7/09 "Robin Hood" Ridley Scotts latest epic adventure staring Russell Crowe and Kate Blanchet in this big budget film.

• 7/09 "Tudor Pageant" This was a celebration reinactment of Henry V111's assention to the thrown 500 years ago.

• 7/09 BBC "Merlin" - The old dinghy was being pulled by an underwater pulley system for that magical glide.

• 4/09 "Desperate Romantics" A classic boating sceme on a lake with traditional wooden hire boats.

• 4/09 "Calvin Harris" This popular singer in his trade mark shades in a boat in the rain !

• 4/09 "The Day Of The Triffids". Joel Richardson stars in the remake of this classic story.

• 3/09 "The Boat Race" Our camera boat is the official umpires launch for the Oxford and Cambridge boat race

• 3/09 "Paramount Comedy" This advert for the new comedy channel required the opening of Tower Bridge and

• 3/09 "Four Seasons". Winter and Spring shot in Longleat country park featuring Tom Conti in a rowing boat on

• 2/09 Sky HD "Titanic" An unusual themed screening of this iconic film in a swimming pool with boats and ice bergs.

• 2/09 "Seven Ages of Britain" David Dimbleby was rowing on the Thames for this night shoot with lots of smoke effects.

• 2/09 "O2" An advert for O2 around the Thames Barrier and the Dome with lots of yellow ducks.

• 2/09 "Inbetweeners" This award winning show was filmed in Littlehampton and involved fireing off flares and a falling in

• 1/09 "Sherlock Holmes" Marine film Services Ltd supplied the Ecocat camera boat for the London filming sequence of this

• 11/08 "Ch4 Dangerous Seas". Mike Perham who at the age of 16 set off single handed around the world. Camera boat and

• 10/08 "Three Men In Cornish Boats" The third outing for the three comedians using as many boats as possible to get from

• 10/08 "Chiver Regal" A storm sequence filmed on a racing yacht in Portugal with lots of water effects. The scene

• 9/08 "Dorian Grey" A night shoot on the Thames at Greenwich with a Thames sailing barge and a lot of smoke

• 8/08 "Yell.com" This typically mad set required loading and towing a 100mph powerboat to film this rap scene. Including a

• 8/08 "MTV Bond Girl Stunt" Various stunts were performed by selected contestants involving jumping onto a

• 8/08 "Powergen" advert. Comedian Simon Day perched in an authentic Tene coracle on the Grand Union Canal. We

• 8/08 "Thomas Pink" advert. Three punts hired with safety boat and crew.

• 8/08 Endemol "Extinct" Dermot Oleary presented this TV program looking at the endangered leatherback turtle

• 7/08 "BBC Little Dorrit" 18 century Venice was created in a country park by cheating the Gondola into a shallow tank

• 6/08 "Brightstar" Before we could film this boating scene we had to clear the lake of over 20 tonnes of pond weed.

• 4/08 "P & O" Filming fast boat sequences with the Royal Marines. This involved a high speed boat to boat boarding

• 4/08 "Balloon Wars" This zombie show had lots of blood and guts and won a Bafta.

• 2/08 "Fergie" Black Eyed Peas. A camera was mounted on the bow of this Bond style speed boat filmed on the Thames.

• 1/08 "BBC Blue Peter" Gethen Jones in the submarine escape tower at Gosport.

• 1/08 "The Boat That Rocked" Marine Film Services Ltd carried out a massive search to source the pirate radio ship and

• 1/07 "Shark watch Live" Seven days of live broadcast on the remote Island of Guadalope filming great white sharks.

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