Community
SARmate
A free, informal digital community for current and aspiring first-responders — because the call for help can come from outside the team and from within it.
SARmate is an online, informal community hosted on Slack and open to anyone with an interest in search and rescue or other types of emergency response — volunteers, paid professionals, researchers, students, former or aspiring first-responders.
Free to join, international, member-driven and deliberately low-pressure.
Ask anything
Questions from newcomers and veterans alike — kit, training routes, techniques, careers.
Resources
Share guides, standards and studies. The best of them end up in the SoS Library.
Opportunities
Courses, conferences, volunteering and paid roles across the SAR world.
Wellbeing
A place to talk about the human side of the work, without judgement.
Join the conversation
Free to join. Be respectful, keep operational details appropriate, and help someone out if you can.
Open SARmate on Slack →Trouble joining? Contact us for an invite.
Community guidelines
- Respectful, fear-free communication — the same standard SoS advocates for on the water.
- No sharing of casualty-identifying or sensitive operational information.
- Credit sources when you share documents or research.
- Recruitment and promotion are welcome if they genuinely help SAR people.