The Georgia Department of Natural Resources investigated a boating incident Sunday that involved a vessel getting flooded by the wake of a passing 32-foot cruiser on Lake Lanier.

The incident took place near Flat and Balus creeks, said Sgt. Mike Burgamy, the DNR’s Lake Lanier supervisor.

Flat and Balus creeks are near Balus Creek Park, which is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and sits at the end of Mountain View Drive in West Hall.

At the time of the incident, a small fishing boat with four people aboard was being towed by a pontoon.

After the fishing boat was flooded, the passengers were able to get onto the pontoon and travel safely away, said Robin Hill, a DNR spokeswoman.

There were no injuries, and the whereabouts of the 32-foot cruiser isn’t known.

Hall County Fire Services and Hall County Sheriff’s Office also responded but quickly turned the matter over to the DNR, officials said.

“The incident was apparently cleared pretty quickly by DNR,” Sgt. Stephen Wilbanks, the sheriff’s spokesman, said.
With summer settling in, Lake Lanier has been getting plenty of traffic lately.

“It’s busy,” Burgamy said.

In another incident on the south end of the lake Sunday, a child hit his head on a pontoon after falling from a slide attached to the craft, Hill said.

The child was taken to Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Medical Center, where he was treated for minor injuries, Hall County Fire Chief David Kimbrell said.

On Friday, two children were injured following an accident between a personal watercraft and an inner tube pulled by a boat.

A boy, 11, was unconscious after the accident in the Van Pugh Park area and was airlifted in critical condition to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.

A 15-year-old girl was treated on the scene.

They have not yet been identified by authorities.

Other media have reported that the 11-year-old is the stepson of entertainer Usher.

“We don’t have any updates at all, past (what happened) Friday night,” Hill said Sunday. “The hospital issued a gag order, and no information was being released to anybody.”