Authorities are searching for 17-year-old boy who went missing from a Georgia lake on Thursday evening.

Officials say Jackson Cole Craft went missing at Allatoona Lake on the evening of Thursday, June 5. Located in northwest Georgia, the lake is about 35 miles north of Atlanta.

At around 5:20 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 5, authorities received a call about a boat circling the lake with no driver, Mark McKinnon, Georgia Department of Natural Resources public affairs officer, said during a news conference on June 6. After securing the boat, the search for the driver began.

Sonar technology was ran in the lake and divers were on standby, in case recovery was needed, McKinnon said in a statement obtained by USA TODAY. The search was suspended at dark on Thursday and resumed Friday morning. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Game Wardens, Cherokee County Fire Department, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are all involved in the search.

"We want to bring this family some closure," McKinnon said during the news conference. "It's a very tragic situation and it's one that none of these officers enjoy."

Allatoona Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir that spans more than 12,000 acres.

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