By Cindy Tran and Daniel Mills and Marielle Simon for Daily Mail Australia A surfboard fragment matching the description used by the missing Australian surfer has been handed into Indonesian police. Peter Maynard, from Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has mysteriously vanished since August 27 on Nusa Lembongan, an island just off Bali, where he was last seen. The alarm was raised when the father of three failed to check out of his hotel room five days later. His family believes he went surfing that morning, as his white Hammo brand surfboard was among items missing from his hotel room.
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A section of a surfboard matching the description of the one used by missing Australian Peter Maynard has been spotted
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The alarm was raised after he failed to check out of his hotel room and left all his belongings behind
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Wife of missing Australian surfer has joined in on the hunt and believes one of his three surf boards are missing
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Police will ask the Maynard family for their help in identifying the surfboard
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Peter Maynard, a surfer from Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, was last seen at his hotel on August 26
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Police in Bali have called the missing persons case a 'mystery'
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While his search continues, a Gold Coast man died after being hit by 'a harsh wave' surfing off the Indonesian island on Friday morning
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Geoff Moase, 48, was pulled from the water after he was spotted floating in the surf by a local fisherman
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