Ultimate wetsuit camo/design for spearfishing?

[SailfishX]

Hi!

If you could choose freely how your wetsuit would look like, what would it be?
Full blue camo, full green camo, silver under and black on top, or perhaps blue camo under wich gradually changes into green camo on top?

Please post your idea of a ultimate camo/design for a spearfishing wetsuit!

 

[pasanen]

I wonder if anyone has ever tried ghillie-style camo. This would have enormous drag though.

It would need an understanding of fishes' vision and analysing of the sea ( or the place where one is spearfisihing ) to make a really good camo. Doubt that market is big enough.

I think ghillie would work no matter how fishes see since it don't try to make illusion of camouflage but to copy the real environment.

 

[Captain Ron]

The ghillie suit sounds like a great idea. I'm gonna stick a big purple sea fan around my neck like a collar. The Hogfish will wonder who hung the ugly picture in their house. No seriously, the drag from something like that would just be too much, and there goes maneuverability too not to mention your increased oxygen usage from the extra swimming effort. As far as an ultimate color pattern? That would be entirely dependent on the environment in which you hunt. Kelp forest? Open water? Shallow patch reefs? Or maybe something that reflects the ambient color pattern of whatever environment it is in. It would have to be mirrored pretty well, or it would just appear silver. Does anyone make a reef scene camo pattern? Impose a real picture of a reef on the outside of a suit. You could have different patterns from reefs around the world, with different shades for lowlight or midday hunting. Like hunters on land have different camo patterns.

 

[woodshooter]

i like the riffe cryptic cammo pattern, but i would like more brown in it for south florida.

 

[Padaxes]

I guess it depends where and how your hunting ? I quite like the idea of a gilly suit now you've mentioned it, anyone actually made one ?

 

[chrisreynolds]

I've just bought one of these bad boys.........haven't used it yet though. Apparently its photo's of the sea bed printed onto the suit.....

Omer Camu 3D 5+5 mm. Suits Apnea, Scubastore.com, buy, offers, dive

 

[Tin Man]

I always wondered about disruptive or "dazzle" camouflage as was used on ships and planes before radar rangefinding made it obsolete. The ideas was that you can't make a ship (or diver) invisible, but you can draw the eye away from the outline, and make it more difficult to tell what kind of ship it was, and at what speed and heading. Nature does it too. (zebras, lionfish, etc.)

 

[spaghetti]

Best camo depends on location.
If you hunt in very shallow water (0-3 meters), where colours don't fade, you must try to hymitate the bottom and water shades.

If you hunt intermediate depths, you better need a combination that breaks your silhouette, making it harder to recognize the shape of your body (what Tin Man was talking about in his post).

If you hunt deep, camo wont' help much. Some people suggest red camo for depth, cause red is the first colour to disappear at depth, turning to some kind of shady darkish violet.

Now take the above with a grain of salt: that's only commonly agreed opinion. But we don't know what's really on a fish's mind.

Ghilly westuit: the 5 times italian national champion Nicola Riolo, with his own company S-Dive, made a hunting wetsuit with floppy floating fringes on the shoulders to hymitate coral and weed. As shown below: