Projects & Events
Bringing Positive Change to SAR
SoS partners with individuals and organizations interested in innovating, ideating, and co-creating healthier, safer, high-performing teams and companies.
SoS Themes - Each project is about one of our themes▾
01
Break Barriers to Entry
For all people interested in SAR as a career or for professional development.
02
Improve Psychosocial Safety
To help others in the field, we must help each other in the office.
03
Advocate for Volunteers
Equal rights and protections for unpaid labor in SAR.
04
Innovate & Ideate
Interdisciplinary research and development on novel topics.
| Project / Event | Summary | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| SimSAR - Maritime SAR Simulation & Scenario | SoS develops web-based interactive, dynamic SAR simulations for all audiences (layperson and professional, alike), presenting realistic scenarios, based on international guidance such as IAMSAR. SimSAR puts you the seat of a SAR responder: rescue boat, On-scene Coordinator (OSC), SMC, MC. Are you rescue-ready? | Knowledge Sharing, Education |
| Water Safety & SAR Library | Your one-stop resource for water safety & SAR learning. Free & paid options. Addresses a gap in centralized topical knowledge repositories. | Knowledge Sharing · Education · Innovation |
| The Maritime SAR Bibliography | Contribute content or donate. Addresses the gap of a comprehensive topical bibliography for maritime SAR. | Knowledge Sharing · Education |
| International Maritime SAR Database | Developing innovative concepts for the world's first global maritime SAR database. Paper under review 2024–2025. | Knowledge Sharing · Education · Innovation · Community |
| SARmate ↗ | An informal online digital forum for connecting the community: networking, Q&A, news, mentoring, opportunity-creation. | Community · Opportunity-Building · Knowledge Sharing |
| Diagram of the History of Maritime SAR | A visual reference chart. Purchase a copy from SoS. | Knowledge Sharing · Education |
| Maritime SAR 101 ↗ | Introductory learning material — Who, What, Where, When, How, Why. | Knowledge Sharing · Education |
| Aspects of Man-Overboard Boat Emergencies | Live training & presentations on person-in-water emergencies and boat-based rescue. | Education · Training · Knowledge Sharing |
| Maritime SAR Training Best-Practices & Standardization | Hire to improve your team training, or collaborate on developing a standard training regime for maritime SAR. | Training · Standardization · Operational Excellence |
| Healing Unhealthy Teams & Leadership in SAR | Live online input/interactive discussion presentations on interpersonal and procedural harms in SAR teams. | Workplace Health · Human Factors · Ethical Organizations |
| Psychosocial Safety in SAR | Writing publications and building awareness. Contact to co-author. Addresses gaps in prevention and recourse for workplace harms. | Psychosocial Safety · Awareness |
| Paid & Unpaid in SAR | Journal-accepted paper (2025). Addresses gaps in paid opportunities and legal protections for unpaid labor. | Human Rights · Beyond Compliance · Ethical Organization |
| Equal Rights for SAR Volunteers | Research and Advocating equal rights and legal protections for unpaid workers in first-response — public safety work deserves parity and protection. | Human Rights · Psychosocial Safety · Advocacy |
| Astro/Space SAR | Concept development and research for search & rescue in outer space. Providing thought leadership and collaboration opportunities such as co-authoring. | Innovation · Concept Development · Industry Progress |
| Project Heavy Weather | Stealth mode. Stay tuned. Contact to collaborate. | TBD |
| Fundraising of 2 Response Boats for Education & Training | Donate finances or working rescue boats for the SoS training program: helping make a more rescue-ready global public, providing hands-on training resources and education for new and existing first-responders conducting either emergency or non-emergency assistance. |
How you can support
- Partner with us
Business agreements, affiliate partners.
- Share content & expertise
Co-author, co-develop, co-advocate.
- Donate or invest
Sustain in-kind knowledge-sharing.