Search crews have recovered the body of a Buford teen that died in a boating incident at Lake Lanier, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Griffin Prince’s body was found in about 113 feet of water in the Shoal Creek area of the lake.

"It's wonderful they found him," the boy's grandfather Mike Prince Sr. told the AJC, but declined further comment until Thursday morning.

Dive teams spent nine days searching for Prince, 13. It looked like the search would have to wait until day 10.

Then around 6 p.m. Wednesday, FBI sonar picked up something under the water very close to the crash site.

"We were wrapping up," said Sgt Stephen Wilbanks of the Hall County Sheriff's Department.

Divers went back into the water and Griffin’s body was found in "one of the darkest areas of the lake," Hall County sheriff Steve Cronic said.

“Without that equipment we would not have made this recovery,” Cronic said.

FBI divers spent the day climbing trees as high as 60 feet in an underwater forest. But the body was not tangled in the trees as first feared.

Cadaver dogs were able to help divers narrow their search to within 200 feet of the crash site, which was not far from Buford Dam.

“The first priority was closure for the family,” DNR Major Stephen Adams said.  "Now we can focus solely on the boating incident investigation.”

The Prince family said it was waiting for Griffin's body to be recovered so they could bury the boy with his 9-year-old brother, Jake Prince of Buford, was also killed in the crash.

On June 18, a pontoon boat carrying the teen and 12 other people in Shoal Creek was hit by another boat at around 10:30 p.m. 

The operator of the other boat, 44-year-old Paul J. Bennett, of Cumming, was arrested by Wildlife Resources Division conservation rangers and charged with boating under the influence.

DNR teams have already started reconstructing the accident. They could also charge Bennett with homicide, but that could take several weeks, Col. Eddie Henderson, the agency's law enforcement chief, said.

More than 10 agencies and organizations had been called in to help with the search, according to the DNR’s Wildlife Resources Division.

The search for the missing teen included divers and other personnel from agencies including Hall, Forsyth, Gwinnett and Cobb counties, the FBI, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Georgia State Patrol.