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Some heroes wear tanks: Get to know the guys behind Lake Lanier Recovery Divers
Lake Lanier Recovery Divers
From left, Ronin Molina-Salas, Richard Pickering and Mark Lanford stand with a dive flag, a red flag with a white, diagonal stripe through it. This flag indicates to boaters and other people on the lake that divers are underneath the water.
Ashlyn Yule
FCN staff
Published: Oct 19, 2021, 9:00 PM
While visitors drove up to the lake in September to go boating, jet skiing or just have a good time in the warm sun, Richard Pickering and his recovery dive crew were suiting up to jump into 40-degree Fahrenheit water.
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Authorities respond to reported Lake Lanier drowning
Lake Lanier
Kelly Whitmire
Forsyth County News
Published: Jul 20, 2025, 9:24 PM
Officials said firefighters responded to “an assumed, but unwitnessed, drowning.”
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