The body of a man found along the shore of Ma­yaro late on Fri­day, has been iden­ti­fied as fire of­fi­cer Chester Richard­son.

Richard­son, 47, from Ari­ma had been re­port­ed miss­ing by his rel­a­tives on Fri­day.

He was found by a cou­ple walk­ing along the beach at around 11 pm.

The body was clad in a blue pair of shorts.

It is be­lieved that he went for a swim and got in­to dif­fi­cul­ties.

Po­lice said the body bore no marks of vi­o­lence.

Guardian Me­dia was told that Richard­son’s rel­a­tives owned a beach house in the area and it was be­lieved that Richard­son had been to the beach house be­fore he went miss­ing.

Richard­son, a fa­ther of three, had been in the Fire Ser­vice for 24 years.

He was at­tached to the San Juan Fire Sta­tion and lived in Ari­ma.

An au­top­sy is set to be con­duct­ed on his body to­day to con­firm the cause of death.