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Charles Maxwell is an experienced underwater cinematographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. Charles has been a keen diver and lover of the marine environment for 40 years. He began a career in underwater cinematography in 1987 when he assisted French Television in filming Le Souffle du Dragon, a story about the discovery and exploration of a huge underground lake in Namibia. Since then he has worked with many production companies worldwide.

Charles was a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award winner in the category Outstanding Cinematography for Non-Fiction Programming (Single or Multi-Cam) for work done for The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, produced by the BBC / Discovery Channel. In 2006 Charles filmed rays feeding on squid for the BBC's Planet Earth: Shallow Seas.

Charles founded Underwater Video Services in 1990 as a support diving company, offering a wide range of diving and underwater filming equipment, diving boats and an extensive underwater video library. All divers supplied by us are registered with the Department of Labour as professional divers.

Underwater Video Services is proud to be associated with Visual Impact for the supply of HD cameras and technical support.

For more information please contact Charles on: 082 568 8347 or email or look at our website