Comments by "Ben Wilson" (@benwilson6145) on "DAZZLE Camouflage, The INCREDIBLE Art of War" video.

  1. The most important way to confuse another vessel was to make the direction of the ships head hard to discern. Professional seafarers look at a ship and by the spacing of the masts , hull shape make the heading obvious. This is due to the collision regulations that determine the spacing of the mast lights. This will give the U Boat a good guess as to the heading. If you can also discern hold spacing, accommodation, forecastle you will get a size estimate of the speed. A simple but effective addition, especially for a slow ship was to paint an excessive bow wave on the bow. Any paint scheme that obscures these items will make the estimates difficult. The best camouflage used by humans was that used by Scottish Ghillies, Tweed, every dot is slightly different from the next. Bein adopted in the last 15 years.
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