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Best Places To Swim by Orca is nominated for the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Association WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe

noun - Orca is the New Zealand-based creator and developer of cutting edge sports apparel, born out of athletes’ success in the grueling and technically advanced sport of triathlon. Orca, established in 1992, produces products such as wetsuits for the triathlon and swimming markets as well as FINA-approved competitive swimwear. Orca also offers various initiatives including Best Places To Swim and Make The Ocean Your Pool.

Best Places To Swim

Orca also provides an online service called Best Places To Swim that enables triathletes and open water swimmers to upload and download information on open water swimming courses around the world. BestPlacesToSwim is an online information service provided by Orca that enables open water swimmers and triathletes to upload and download detailed information about open water swimming courses and services offered (including restrooms, bars, restaurants, showers, locker rooms) and cautions to be aware of.

2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

Make the Ocean Your Pool is an initiative of Orca that was nominated for the 2020 WOWSA Awards in the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year category with the following nomination: When pools were shut down globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Orca created an opportunity to help swimmers stay sane and fit. Orca, a wetsuit brand owned by Orbea, created the online program Make The Ocean Your Pool. Following its long line of offering creative solutions like its Best Places To Swim online information service, Make The Ocean Your Pool is a new service that encourages and educates pool swimmers and those who are not yet passionate open water people to have the information and confidence to venture beyond the shorelines of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and bays near them. Orca offered discounts for both individual consumers and teams. For generating interest and a sense of community around the open water, for jumping into the vacuum created due to pool closures around the world and eliminating barriers to continue swimming, and for creating an informational newsletter and public support encouragement of open water swimming combined with product discounts, Make The Ocean Your Pool by Orca is a worthy nominee for the 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.

2015 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

Best Places To Swim was nominated for the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association:

Best Places to Swim is Orca's new service that enables the ability for the global community for open water swimmers and triathletes to can upload and describe their favorite open water courses. Athletes can both teach and share their favorite courses as well as learn and download information from other courses that swimmers have recommended. The information includes the difficulty of the course (easy, medium, hard), services available (restrooms, locker rooms, showers, bar, restaurant), safety conditions to be aware of (rocks, marine life, currents), and ample room to describe the courses as much detail as necessary. For its core business of sports apparel to social media offerings, for its global outlook from Down Under to across the world's continents, and for an easy-to-use, convenient service, Best Places to Swim by Orca is a worthy nominee for the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.

Best Places To Swim Video

Make The Ocean Your Pool

Make The Ocean Your Pool is an initiative of Orca.

Killer Whales

This is not to be confused with the marine mammals, Orcas or occasionally and improperly known as Killer Whales.

noun - Orca is a type of whale commonly referred to as killer whales.

ORCA

ORCA or Ocean Recreation Comfort Apparatus is a sonic camouflage device designed to keep sharks away from humans.

Orca Athletes

Orca's sponsored triathletes include

Emma Moffatt (AUS), the 2009 and 2010 ITU World Champion
Courtney Atkinson (AUS), ITU World Cup Winner, Olympian, Australian Sprint Triathlon Champion
William Trubridge, Freediving World Record Holder - Constant Weight No Fins 100m
Chris McCormack (AUS), 2007 and 2010 Ironman World Champion and 5 x Ironman Australia Champion
Vicky Holland (UK), 8th 2010 ITU World Championship Series
Jodie Stimpson (UK), 1st Junior Women 2006 ITU Aquathlon World Champs and 2nd Under 23 2009 ETU Youth Triathlon
Sky Draper (UK), 2010 BTA Junior Female Triathlete of the Year
Raynard Tissink (South Africa), 2010 Ironman South Africa Champion and 5th 2010 Ironman World Championships

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