![Local surfers discovered the body of a man, possibly in his 20s, floating in the waters off Venice Beach Tuesday morning. (Thinkstock).](http://smmirror.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/venice-300x240.jpg)
Authorities today identified the decomposing human remains found Tuesday in the ocean near Venice as a 22-year-old Bakersfield man.
An autopsy was pending on the body of Anibar Guana, coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter said.
The body was spotted by a surfer about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in an ocean area near 18th Avenue, according to county lifeguard officials.
No information was available on a possible cause of death. Winter said Guana had been reported missing from the Bakersfield area but he did not know when.