It strives to solve problems constructively, guided by the need to raise awareness of the value of surf, and the will to create added value to all the involved parties.

with the objective to protect the wave of Santo Amaro de Oeiras, the only surfing alternative in the Lisbon region in days of strong stormy SW winds.

The movement achieved an agreement with the Oeiras Town Hall that allowed the preservation of 70% of the wave extension area.

is unique and different from other surf/ocean NGO and associations as its technical team is at the forefront of studies in coastal engineering and environment, artificial reef projects, surf-economics, social politics and is, thus, able to solve problems of wave preservation from the onset, directly proposing surfing friendly solutions to local and national government, population and coastal work promoters.

In 2008/2009 the same team, including also Guilherme Garcia, upgraded S. O. S. to a legal surfer's Association in order to improve the protecting and developing of surfing.

is further being upgraded to an Environmental Non-Governmental Organization, since the surf and beach damaging coastal works continue being constructed.

came to life from a group of surfers to defend the only wave near Lisbon that works with SW storms and, for the first time in Portugal, technical reasoning was used to convince the Harbour of Lisbon and the local Municipality of Oeiras that the peer would damage the wave and would not have the desired protective effect.

campaigned to converge more than 5.000 surfers to this beach break to ask the Municipality of Cascais not to build groins to contain the sands (again, technical proof was given that this was not an efficient solution).

Despite giving technical evidence the Municipality has not heard the surfers and in 2006 the dunes were damaged by storms and high tides, leading to an expensive and urgent beach nourishment and sea wall increase.

supported technically in 2003 the civic movement for the preservation of Jardim do Mar, led by the environmental associations Save the Waves Coalition, Quercus and Cosmo.

was called to give technical support to a locals surfer movement that wanted to impede the extension of a peer north of the Mondego River threatening this world class wave.