For the past year, lawyer and blogger Blaine Alan Gibson has been travelling to remote islands around the Indian Ocean in search of pieces of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared nearly two years ago with 239 people on board.

Mr Gibson found a piece of suspected MH370 wreckage measuring 130 centimetres by 55 centimetres on a sandbank of the Mozambique Channel, which separates Mozambique from Madagascar. It comes from the same corner of the Indian Ocean where last year the only confirmed piece of debris from the plane was found on Reunion Island.

His discovery, which he passed on to Mozambique authorities, has captured the attention of officials investigating the plane’s disappearance. Malaysia’s transport Minister Liow Tiong urged against speculations but said there was a ‘high possibility’ the piece was from a Boeing 777, the same type of aircraft as MH370.

Mr Gibson has been blogging about his own investigation and writes that he has been, ‘combing beaches for a year to find anything that looks like it could be possibly ... from an airplane.’ At the time of the discovery on Reunion Island, he told a local news outlet that he began his quest to discover what happened to MH370 after meeting families of the victims at a commemoration in Malaysia in March 2015. Sources: The Hunt for MH370; Stuff; CNN; Australasian Lawyer