“Within seconds, they tried to get him,” Diaz-Soria’s friend Melanie Meza told Channel 2 Action News. “After five minutes, there was no luck, so they called out for help.”
The news station reported the group was celebrating a friend’s birthday.
Rescue crews arrived and started looking for him with sonar equipment. The search was suspended at nightfall and resumed Sunday morning. By 7:30 p.m., Diaz-Soria’s body was found in 60 feet of water, according to a DNR drowning report.
“He’s such a go-getter — whatever he could do to support his family,” Meza said of Diaz-Soria. She told Channel 2 his sister and parents are struggling with the loss.
Diaz-Soria is among three people who have drowned at the lake so far this year, according to preliminary DNR data. That matches the total drowning deaths for all of 2024.
In 2023, 13 people drowned at the lake, an abnormally high number. In the past 10 years, the lake has seen an average of seven drownings per year.
Since record keeping began in 1999, only one year saw no drowning deaths on Lake Lanier; that was in 2013.
— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.
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