Divers from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office spent much of the day Monday in Lake Lanier, looking for the body of an Atlanta woman believed to have drowned Sunday. Witnesses say 31 year-old Madeline Sinagra jumped off a sailboat and disappeared into the water.
Double-digit winds at the lake may have been a factor.
“The wind was blowing pretty heavy (Sunday), and it blew the sailboat parallel and away from her,” Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mike Burgamy told Channel 2 Action News.
Deputies and fire services were called to the lake between Port Royale and Old Federal Park just before 4 p.m. Sunday when it was feared the woman had drowned.
