23-year-old man is second drowning victim in 2 days in Atlanta-area lakes

A man who was fishing with his wife on Lake Lanier drowned after falling from his boat Wednesday, according to the DNR.

Investigators said they believe that when Matthew Mayo of Gainesville tried to sit on a seat of the bass boat, it came unlatched from the bottom, causing him to fall into the water. Mayo, 73, has not resurfaced.

Wardens, along with Gainesville deputies, firefighters and police officers from Hall County, were called to Lanier Point to search for the man. Her body was located using a SONAR device in six feet of water, the DNR said. A remote-controlled ship was then able to recover Mayo’s body.

On Thursday, wardens along with Bartow County firefighters and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assisted in Allatoona’s recovery. After a SONAR device located Tojin and a dive team recovered the body, the DNR said.

Over Memorial Day weekend, two people drowned in Georgia, but neither in Lanier nor Allatoona, the DNR previously said.

A 33-year-old man died of an apparent drowning on Massengale Park Beach on Saint Simons Island on Sunday afternoon, Glynn County firefighters said. A lifeguard was alerted to the presence of a man in distress and pulled him from the water. He was not conscious and died of his injuries at a Brunswick hospital.

Then on Monday afternoon, a body was found in a private pond in Muscogee County, according to the DNR. Investigators believe the body may have been in the pond for at least two days.