05/07/2025
Lifesaving Excellence
Honouring our Rescue Services Winners, John Restuccia, Charlie Hort, Brett Jamieson and Marie Bowen
Across our coastline, Surf Life Saving Sydney continues to adapt and evolve in response to emerging challenges, embracing diversity and inclusion as central strengths. Our members not only save lives but also educate, connect, and protect our communities, by the community, for the community, and that is something we are deeply proud of.
Surf Life Saving Sydney respects and acknowledges the traditional custodians across all the lands on which we live, work and patrol, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Background Image credit: 'Eora Dreaming' depicts the community of the fifteen Surf Life Saving Clubs throughout Sydney, stretching from North Bondi south to Burning Palms in the Royal National Park - Artist 'Billy Reynolds', proud Dharawal and Yuin man.
The Sydney Branch RWC group have the responsibility of supporting our clubs as well as patrolling un-patrolled locations. This includes supporting carnivals and aquatic events to assisting in rescue incidents as and when required.
We have a terrific team of trained support personnel and are always looking for new members. We run courses throughout the year to ensure that our team remains fresh and vibrant. Our vessels are located in Sutherland and Malabar, as well as at a number of our Surf Clubs along the coast.
Our operators are proficient Bronze Medallion holders (Cert II Public Safety Aquatic Rescue) as well as being an ART (Advanced Resuscitation Technique) and First Aid award holder. They are current (financial) club members within Sydney Branch and must have a driver’s license. Plus we provide further training to ensure they are job ready to respond to any issue.
If you’re keen to join our RWC team, we’d love to hear from you.
RWC Announcements
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Announcement 03: 26/27 RWC Call Sign Changes – Effective 10 July 2026
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SR30
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Announcement 49: 25/26 SLSS Rescue Services Operator Hours Recognition Season 2025-2026
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Announcement 30:25/26 Rescue Services EOIs RWC Course 2026
Education
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Memo: 2025/26 RWC Proficiency Information Sessions
Become a RWC Operator
We’re always on the look out for enthusiastic members to join our Rescue Water Craft cohort. If you’re keen to join a passionate team of community minded members, just reach out and we’ll talk you through the steps you need to take to become our newest RWC operators.
Once we have the logistics ready for our next intake, we’ll post a link below with all the details.
RWC Standard Operating Procedures
Many of the tasks that our Rescue Services members undertake are common across the state. As such, SLSNSW have created a series of SOPs that apply to all support services. This includes our terrific RWC Operators.
Find the state SOPs for Public Safety.
RWC News
08/01/2025
Reminder that Expressions of Interest for members interested and eligible to join our next intake of Rescue Water Craft operators closes Monday 31 March 2025.
RWC Events
Last updated: August 29, 2025