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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.
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.