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Bougainville Reef
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Dive Site:
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The Zoo
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Location:
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15°30.317S 147°06.890E
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Visited By:
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Mike Ball's Spoilsport anchorage, Undersea Explorer, Spirit Of Freedom
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Depth:
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5-40 metres
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Rating:
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Intermediate
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Features:
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- The Sticks and Between Wrecks are great drifts, while Deep Six, Dungeons and Dragons, West Point, The Junkyard and Corner Shop are all accessed from moorings and hot boats
- At The Zoo see white tip reef sharks resting, and sometimes a black cowtail ray
- Find nudibranchs, flatworms and leopard blennies
- Surgeonfish, snappers, sweetlips and drummer can be spotted
- Grey reef sharks patrol the whole area - a great thrill when you meet one in a channel
- Lucky observers may see the occasional angelfish
- Cruise with green and hawksbill turtles, sharks at The Zoo
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Note: Latitude and longitude not to be used for navigational purposes - approx co-ords only.
