After a four-day search, Greek officials said on Sunday they had found the body of Michael Mosley, a British medical journalist and documentary maker who disappeared last week while on a trip on the Greek island of Symi.

His body was found on a beach in Agia Marina, said the mayor of Symi, Eleftherios Papakalodoukas.

A spokeswoman for the Greek police, Constantina Dimoglidou, said the mayor, who was on a boat patrolling the coast with reporters from the state news television channel Ert, spotted Mosley’s body and recognised his blue shirt from the last pictures of him captured on security cameras.

Mosley, 67, a BBC journalist, had arrived on Tuesday on Symi, part of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea, for a weeklong trip. He told friends at Agios Nikolaos beach on Wednesday afternoon that he would walk back to his accommodation in Symi town, the local authorities said.

The walk is about two miles, depending on the route taken. When hours had passed with no sign of Mosley, his wife, Clare Bailey Mosley, reported him missing to the police.

Over the years, many British viewers relied on Mosley, an investigator of science and health, for his myth-busting advice on diet, exercise and sleep.

New York Times News Service