Our Community, “Spirit Orcas”, a documentary by AMI: Accessible Media Inc., June 2021
Early 2021 Steven Munatones from the World Open Water Swimming Association invited the Spirit Orcas onto WOWSA live for a conversation about the Great Big Swim.
This summer of 2020 the Spirit Orcas, coach Susan and mentor Jasmine Kremer swam an 80km staged swim to raise funds for the Greater Victoria Vital Fund supporting our...
Sometimes coach is just too old and slow to keep up with the Spirit Orcas. A bit of break humor – or not – during the Great Big Swim.
GBS Stage 3 Drew Sabourn It is always heartbreaking when you have to pull an athlete from the water for safety reasons, in this case hypothermia. Even more heartbreaking...
Never a dull moment on a great big swim. During Stage 2 of the Great Big Swim the Spirit Orcas swim from Patricia Bay to Swartz Bay and the BC Ferry terminal. Once we...
The summer of 2020, four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spirit Orcas set out to swim 80km over 8 weeks. Dubbed the Great Big Swim, each stage of the swim would...
In 2017 Meliah participated in a life goal setting session. One of the goals she she identified was to swim 5 kilometres in a lake. A few days later she started training...
In July 2019 the Spirit Orcas swam a waterway known as Gunboat Passage near Waglisla (Bella Bella) in the heart of the traditional territory of the Heiltsuk...
The summer of 2019 the Spirit Orcas travelled to the central coast of British Columbia to a place called Waglisla (Bella Bella) in the heart of the traditional territory...