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Agincourt Reef
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Dive Site:
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Nursery Bommie
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Location:
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16°01.907S 145°51.203E. Southwest back of Reef 2A in Agincourt complex
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Visited By:
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Silversonic, Poseidon
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Depth:
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0-24 metres
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Rating:
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Novice
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Features:
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- Agincourt Reef is a series of many smaller reefs
- It has at least 16 different dive sites including; Point Break, Three Sisters, Horseshoe Reef and the Fish Bowl
- Pieces of a Taiwanese wreck are featured at The Wreck
- Giant clams and Maori wrasse appear at all the sites
- Look for big fish and turtles
- Meander in the coral gardens and look for garden eels
- At the Nursery Bommie look for two giant morays (they can be aggressive at times!)
- Huge clouds of fairy basslets and other planktivores hover out in the current
- Look for yellow-striped barracuda
- See lionfish, drummer, unicornfish, clownfish and their host anemones in the shallower sections
- Explore around the clumps of staghorn clumps and boulder corals
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Note: Latitude and longitude not to be used for navigational purposes - approx co-ords only.
