Brendan Cullen started swimming to help with his depression. Now he’s overcome rough seas, jellyfish and fatigue to swim from England to France in 17 hours
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The far western New South Wales grazier Brendan Cullen lives a long way from a swimming pool. His Kars station is 60km south-east of Broken Hill.
In 2016, he decided to swim to help with his depression. Cullen began making use of any body of water. He used dams on his property and tethered himself to a wall in a plunge pool or drove the 60km to the Broken Hill YMCA.
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