FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Authorities, friends and family spent the day searching for a man named Yakov Shteyman, 34, of Cumming, who disappeared when his jet ski collided with a boat.
His body was located with sonar and recovered Tuesday evening.
Officers said the T-bone type crash between a jet ski and the boat happened Monday night around 8:30 on Lake Lanier.
Divers, rescue crews from the Department of Natural Resources, helicopters, underwater sonar and the Forsyth County Fire Department searched on the lake looking for the man thrown into the water.
“We had a personal watercraft that collided with a bass boat,” Sgt. Lee Brown with DNR said.
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The search was first launched after the accident happened, but was suspended during the wee hours of the morning. It resumed at sunrise.
“Just one person was on the bass boat and one person on the personal watercraft,” Brown said.
Search crews searched an area on Lake Lanier known as Six Mile Creek and tried to pinpoint where on the lake the crash happened.
DNR investigators will check if speed or alcohol played a part in the crash.
"That will be determined through the investigation," Brown said.
"Personal watercrafts are supposed to be out of the lake after sunset, but the bass boat was still legally allowed to be on the water," said the DNR.
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