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Surf lifesaver David Winner's plan to teach CPR to one million Australians after summer of drownings

David Winner says a record number of drownings over summer has inspired his CPR training initiative. (Supplied: Coalcliff Surf Life Saving Club)

When veteran surf lifesaver David Winner's limp body was pulled from a deep rockpool at a beach where he had swum almost every day for 40 years, those trying to save him feared they were too late.

"I thought, 'I'm just going through the motions, he's dead to the world'," Mr Winner's neighbour, volunteer lifesaver Andrew Massey, said.

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