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Catalina Express

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Catalina Express
Catalina Express

Catalina Express (legally Catalina Channel Express) is an American passenger ferry service that operates scheduled trips between Santa Catalina Island and mainland California. The company began service in 1981 with a single sixty-passenger vessel. As of 2016, the Catalina Express fleet includes eight high-speed vessels that can make the roughly 30-mile (48 km) crossing in about an hour.

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Catalina Express
Swinford Street, Los Angeles

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90731 Los Angeles
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