Flyboard Television Project with Sky 1’s Russell Howard Hour

In May 2019 Aquatic Jetpack’s Coordinated a Flyboard TV Project with the two comedians Russell Howard and Jon Richardson. The project involved teaching the two comedians to Flyboard, provide jet ski rescue cover and the provision of 2 support vessels as camera boats. The production company involved with the project was Avalon UK who were a great team to work alongside.

As with all bespoke marine TV projects a lot of planning and prior work was undertaken to make sure the time with the celebrities went as smoothly as possible and Avalon had a good standard of material to work with.

In preparation for the project Aquatic Jetpacks provided all the important health and safety information to be approved onto the accredit contractor’s list of the 1st Option Safety Group. Once this had been signed off and Avalon were happy that their clients were in safe hand we then set about coordinating how the project ran.

As a team that have worked on several marine based tv and film projects we were all to aware that Celebrities often have a very packed schedule and can only allocate a certain amount of time (sometime only several hours) and a very specific date to get a film project completed. Therefore in a marine environment whilst we can control several elements there are several other elements which are beyond our control, the main one being weather. It was therefore important to offer several different locations for filming to allow for a range of conditions on the day and also a couple of different activities.

The Coral Grand Splashional – A Project coordinated by Aquatic Jetpacks

In December 2016 Aquatic Jetpacks were commissioned by Z-PR to produce a Flyboard Stunt for Coral’s 2017 ‘I love Grand National’ Campaign. The idea for the stunt was on the back of the Jetski Grand National which was produced in 2013 for Coral’s ‘How do you pick yours?’ campaign. Working alongside Z-PR, during several months of planning, site visits and meetings, The Aquatic Jetpacks team were able to overcome the challenges associated with this type of project and achieve a fantastic result for the client. Click here to read more about our fun project!

Music video ‘Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants’

In 2014 Riff Raff productions required a scene comprising of 4 Flyboarders for the music video to Walking with Elephants. Filmed off the Kent Coast we were able to overcome various challenges to help produce an exciting segment in the video which has now had over 5 million views.

Weymouth Waterfest Display

We have been commissioned to do various Flyboard displays over the last few years and by far our favourite is the one at the Weymouth Waterfest. The display area in the harbour provides a unique arena with specatators able to watch from an almost 360 view. Due to the success and popularity of the Flyboard display in 2014 we combined it with an additional Hoverboard display in 2015.