ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has released its final boating statistics for the Labor Day weekend.
Officials responded to a total of four incidents between Saturday and Monday.
The most notable incident happened on Saturday afternoon when a 46-year-old Vinings man drowned while swimming in Lake Lanier.
Hasani Kamau Widemond, 46, was swimming from shore back to his boat when he went underwater and did not resurface.
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Game wardens located him in approximately 25 feet of water using boat-mounted sonar.
Then, on Monday, a 28-year-old woman was flown to a hospital in Columbus after taking a bad fall while wakeboarding.
Her current status is unclear.
The other two incidents did not result in severe injuries.
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