The suspension stems from a combination of cold water temperatures and tough conditions for divers and K-9s to do their jobs.

The dive team search for missing teacher Gary Jones in Lake Oconee has been called off until further notice, according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.

The divers are highly trained and experienced with diving in murky, obstacle-studded water. The Emergency Dive Response Team, a nonprofit based at Lake Lanier, has brought in volunteer divers to search areas thick with submerged timber.

The search for missing teacher Gary Jones in Lake Oconee is continuing. Saturday marks three weeks since Jones and his fiancée, Joycelyn Wilson, went boating on Lake Oconee and vanished. Wilson’s body was pulled from the water the next day.

Crews spent three weeks searching the water of Lake Oconee for Gary Jones, who has not been seen since Feb. 8 The search for a missing private school coach has been suspended indefinitely at the Georgia lake where his boat was found empty more than three weeks ago.

Investigators conducting a search-and-rescue effort for a Westminster coach who disappeared after a Lake Oconee boating incident on Feb. 8 are suspending daily operations, citing poor weather conditions.