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HydroFlex

HydroFlex designs, builds and rents an extensive line of equipment and accessories for filming underwater and on wet locations.

02/20/2026

Friday Flashback💥

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 6: FALLOUT (2018)

In this sequence Simon Pegg (Benji) has been arrested and it’s up to Ethan Hunt’s team to break him out. They roll the police van into a river, then rescue him underwater.

💧Van body was mounted in a gimbal that simulated the rolling motion as it enters the water. Two HydroFlex RAC MK 5’s, holding Panavision DXLs, are mounted at the rear of the open shell.

💧Underwater lighting was provided by HydroPar M1 5k’s. The tube lights were our underwater HydroFlows (kino lights - before programmable astera and titan tubes came on the scene)

💧Filming Benji’s rescue (hanging upside down) by a team of divers swimming in through the boot door.

Director: Christopher McQuarrie
DOP: Rob Hardy
UW DP: Pete Romano ASC
UW AC: Loren Elkins
UW Gaffer: Aaron Keating
UW Grip: Dan Travers
….plus a great crew of divers!

01/27/2026

Found this image of actor,Thomas Jane, swimming among Caribbean reef sharks, in Nassau, Bahamas, for the cult favorite shark film, DEEP BLUE SEA.

🌊 A group of sharks, btw, is called a Shiver, for their sleek, cutting movements as they swim together through the water. Some also call it a Frenzy, but that can have other connotations.
🌊The film is about Jane and a team of research scientists who think sharks may hold the key to curing Alzheimer’s. That is, until the sharks decided to rebel from their captivity .
🌊It was shot primarily in Baja, at the former Titanic studios, where they utilized animatronic sharks in the large tanks. (Edge Innovations) The real ones were shot in the Bahamas location. Certain CGI shark sequences completed the overall approach. (Hammerhead Prods & Cinesite)

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Director: Renny Harlin
DOP: Stephen Windon ACS, ASC

UW DP: Pete Romano ASC
UW Gaffer: Pat Murray
UW Grip: Chip Matheson

12/04/2025

As the 84th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor approaches, December 7, we wanted to share some photos taken on the USS ARIZONA.

Pete Romano ASC and Brett Seymour, from the Submerged Resources Center of the National Park Service, , met when Pete was working on the film “Pearl Harbor” and Brett was overseeing the integrity of the National monument. The two men stayed in touch, and on 2 occasions, 2015 & 2017, Pete was honored to dive with Brett and his team on the Arizona and the USS Utah.

💧Looking back at the memorial
💧Pete & Brett
💧Entering water above the Arizona
💧Overlooking the bow of the ship
💧Sailor’s shoes
💧Through a porthole
💧Office on the other side of the port
💧Oil bubbles from the ship. They leak to this day
💧A moment of reverence

11/04/2025

Marco Del Pizzo , HydroFlex intern, recently took our Ikelite housing with a Sony A7S3 camera, out for a swim in Redondo Beach. He’s working with Thomas Hughes .hughes_ on a drowning sequence for a short film they are producing. Fortunately no one drowned during the production of said drowning sequence! 💦

10/31/2025

Halloween edition 🎃

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), where a team of characters from the fantasy and science fiction realm unite for a secret mission.

Here Pete Romano is filming green screen effects shots with a Vista Vision camera, designed by Greg Bowmont, for which Pete designed the underwater housing. For those who visit HydroFlex, it’s on display in our warehouse.

Directed by: Stephen Norrimgton
Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen ASC DFF
UWDP: Pete Romano ASC
UWAC: Wayne Baker

10/10/2025

Presenting the HydroFlex BUBBLE CAM! 🫧

We were recently approached by to build a housing for a remotely operated PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) camera, the JVC KY-PZ 100. It was to be used as a continuously streaming underwater camera for award-winning, wildly popular, content creator, Kai Cenat . Look him up, his global reach is pretty staggering.

🫧 Our camera housing was develped to be used from Sept 1 - 30, 2025, as a pool camera for his month long streamer, extravaganza, Mafiathon 3. It performed perfectly.

🫧 The camera can be floated at the surface for 180 degrees of motion pointing down, made neutrally buoyant to hand hold in the water, or mounted on a low stand and bottom or pool/tant and can pan & tilt in any direction. The unit is powered and controlled with a single Ethernet/HD-SDI loomed cable.

🫧 Here a few BTS shots of GM bMatt Brown working on some finishing touches, and rental manager,
Rachel Schattle pool testing the unit. Lastly, some actual streaming footage from Mafiathon 3.

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livestream

09/23/2025

Repost from with a 🙌🙌🙌🫡

Swimming backwards 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

09/07/2025

-MOV and a couple of Storm Troopers 🙌

Pete Romano, ASC for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and Cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung.

08/23/2025

More Beta testing on our NEW housing, the RAC MK 6 - a smaller, more compact version of our workhorse, the RAC MK5.

💦 This time Pete Romano ASC, Vance Burberry ASC, vanceburberrydp and Steve Fitzpatrick are working with the Blackmagic PYXIS 6k and the Sigma Cine FF high speed Primes.

💦 HydroFlex GM, Matt Brown, and UW photographer/videographer, Brett Stanley are planning some underwater shots. is the lovely subject. Vance Burberry will be recording BTS of Brett’s photo session with the MK6.

💦 Vance poolside with the RAC MK6. Then he takes it for a spin himself.

We’ve got a few most tests lined up before a full release of this new system. The goal is to support multiple small profile cameras in the RAC MK6, just like we do with the RAC MK5. We are definitely ON TRACK!!Stay tuned….

08/08/2025

Repost from ASC -

08/06/2025

Nice to see some FILM preps this week. 🎥

Here AC built an with a 14 mm distagan lens into our RAC MK 5 housing for an upcoming underwater shoot with .baumert.

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