LHD green or white lights in well deck?

[seadude]

As some may know, I'm building a new class of hospital ship based on the WASP class LHD amphib assault ships as discussed here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,35600.0.html

One detail has me undecided: White lights or green lights in the well deck?

I figure a hospital ship won't need green lighting in the well deck for nighttime operations. A hospital ship is not a combat ship.

[Thorvic]

I would suspect white as they will be receiving wounded and will need to be able to clearly see the patients and their wounds. Plus you may have various small ships/craft using the dock area apart from the ships own boat crews.

To be honest they will have both green and white and would switch between them as the situation demands, but that probably doesnt help 

[scooter]

My $.02- even if they're coming in with patients, the white light is going to blind the boat/LCAC crews coming in at night.  Plus patients will be triaged prior to dispatch (standard in a MASCAL event), they're going to be tagged by priority (Red Tag- Critical, Yellow Tag- Urgent, Green Tag- Walking Wounded, Black- Morgue), so at that point its just read the tags and send to their proper ward or surgery.

To be honest they will have both green and white and would switch between them as the situation demands, but that probably doesnt help 

If you're wiring it up, why not both?  LEDs are cheap.

[kerick]

Curious, I always thought red light preserved night vision.
This would apply to spacecraft coming aboard or docking with a larger ship too. Of course, white light is all we see at the movies as its hard to make your leading actors look good otherwise.

[scooter]

Curious, I always thought red light preserved night vision.
This would apply to spacecraft coming aboard or docking with a larger ship too. Of course, white light is all we see at the movies as its hard to make your leading actors look good otherwise.

Red does, but its been found that blue works even better, and allows you to see that which you can't in red.

[Old Wombat]

I'm with scooter, go for blue!

[proditor]

I'm torn...blue sounds like the beginning of an awesome diorama scene, but white seems like the easiest way to show off your handywork. 

[Captain Canada]

Green. Just seems more natural.