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Boat Filming London in South Bank - UAS London
Thames & River Marine Services

Boat Filming London in South Bank

Specialist over-water boat filming london at South Bank for marine engineering, logistics, and creative media.

If your project sits in South Bank, we can plan and fly it with the river permissions already in place. Typical briefs cover vessel tracking, riverside development, bridge condition and event coverage. We quote per project, because a river job depends far more on access and tide than on the service name.

Magnetic interference near steel structures in South Bank is factored into the flight plan. Where the shot demands it, we launch and recover from an MCA-coded support vessel. Light on the water changes fast, so we will suggest the state of tide and time of day that suits the subject.

Notices to mariners are checked before any South Bank flight, and radio watch is kept during it. All river flights are logged and the records remain available for your own compliance file. We would rather lose a tide and rebook than fly a marginal over-water operation.

Delivery is by secure cloud transfer with the raw capture archived as backup. Share the brief and we will confirm crew availability against the tide table the same day. We are straightforward about what the river will and will not allow.

Marine Specifications in South Bank

VHF marine radio equipped pilots
Water-safety trained flight crews
Live-feed video broadcast capability
Bridge and pier structural inspection clearance
Georeferenced river and foreshore mapping
Riparian landowner and pier operator liaison

Book River Filming

Drone operations at South Bank require Port of London Authority clearance and skipper-coordinated flight paths.

Request River Booking

Thames Operational Specs

  • PLA Coordination Managed
  • VHF Radio Pilot Logs
  • MCA-Coded Support Vessels
  • £10M Maritime Insurance
  • GPS Tracked Over-Water Flights
  • Wind-shear resistant platforms
RegulatoryCAA approved operator
Insurance£10M public liability
Experience1,000+ flight hours in London airspace
AirspaceNATS permissions for central London operations
RegisteredUAS London Limited · 16148461

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you launch drones directly from boats in South Bank?

Yes. Through our partnership with Cinecraft we have access to MCA-coded workboats and support vessels, and our pilots are experienced in launching and recovering from a moving deck.

Do you carry out structural inspections on Thames bridges and piers?

Yes. We fly high-zoom and thermal payloads for close-range condition surveys of bridges, piers, river walls and marine civil works, and can deliver the output as an annotated report or georeferenced imagery.

What does river work in South Bank cost?

It depends on tide windows, whether vessel support is needed and what you want delivered, so we quote per project. Send the brief and the deadline and we will come back with a fixed price and the viable tides.