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Conception was under charter to Worldwide Diving Adventures (WDA) for a three-day scuba diving excursion over the Labor Day holiday weekend, which was one of WDA's most popular diving tour packages. [8] [9] [10] The boat had been refurbished at a cost of more than $1 million following an incident in 2005 when it had been stolen and run aground ...
Numerous people over the years, since the sinking of the Diosa Del Mar in 1990, had attempted to raise and salvage the keel of the boat. It took two attempts by the Huseman brothers, and about 17 trips to Catalina to move masts and debris in preparation to raise the keel off the rocks and reef, and towed to Long Beach Harbor, California. The ...
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.
A helicopter can also be chartered to the village. The Catalina Airport-In-The-Sky is 10 miles (16 km) away to the east. Alternatively, various charter boats offer private service to the island. Most people generally walk or bike around and between Two Harbors and its neighboring campgrounds, Little Harbor and Parsons Landing.
Commercial maritime operations today include the Catalina Flyer ferry to Catalina Island, harbor tours, sport fishing, whale watching day trips, and charters as well as a few small commercial fishing boats. Newport Bay is divided by the Pacific Coast Highway bridge, which is too low for most sailboats and very large boats to pass under.
The L.A. County Sheriff's Department recommended Saturday that tourists and residents, especially those with medical conditions, leave Catalina Island. Hurricane Hilary could bring intense rain ...
The Catalina Flyer is the largest passenger-carrying catamaran on the West Coast of the United States [4] [5] and at the time it was launched it was the largest in North America. [2] It carries an eight-person crew, [5] and features a sundeck, full-service lounges and large view windows. Catalina Flyer passengers coming ashore at Catalina Islaland.
The SSV Tole Mour is a 156 ft (48 m) schooner [1] and sail training vessel operating in the Channel Islands of California, off the West Coast of the United States.. Designed by Ewbank, Brooke and Associates, she was built by the Nichols Bros. Boat Builders [2] on Whidbey Island in Washington's Puget Sound to withstand the extreme conditions of the South Pacific, she is extremely seaworthy and ...