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Search continues for Marietta man missing on Lake Lanier

Posted 5:34AM on Tuesday 1st June 2021 ( 3 years ago )

The search continued Tuesday morning for the body of a Marietta man missing and presumed drowned in Lake Lanier.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources identified the victim as 56-year-old Xi Zhu.

Previous story posted Monday, May 31 at 12:34 p.m. 

The Department of Natural Resources and other agencies resumed the search Monday morning for a man who went under Lake Lanier Saturday night and did not resurface.

Mark McKinnon with the DNR said there are some challenges to their search Monday, including more boats on the water in the Shoal Creek area causing wakes, and standing trees at the bottom of the search area.

The standing trees create "shadows" on sonar, McKinnon said in an email, which means the sonar search technology can't see that area from a particular angle.

The man left an inflatable raft Saturday night around 9:30 p.m. to retrieve an oar, but went under and did not resurface. 

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