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Health

Cold water swimming challenge a personal mission for cancer survivor

Simon Banks is on a mission to travel to a new waterway each weekend and swim for at least half a minute. (ABC News: Maren Preuss)
  • In short: Simon Banks is travelling to different sites around Tasmania for 30-second cold water swims all throughout winter
  • What's next? The funds raised will be donated towards cancer research

Tasmania's beaches have long been hailed as some of Australia's most beautiful — from the Bay of Fires on the east coast, to Boat Harbour in the north-west.

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