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The body of the miss­ing man from Mal­abar, Ari­ma who drowned on Thurs­day at Pen­zante Bay, Ba­lan­dra has been found.

Lo­cal divers from Ba­lan­dra re­trieved the body of An­drew Cur­tis Clarke, 35, around 8:15 am this morn­ing close to where he dis­ap­peared un­der the wa­ter while at­tempt­ing to re­cov­er a foot­ball.

The Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer viewed the body and made a pro­nounce­ment and or­dered its re­moval to San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal pend­ing post­mortem.