- All right.
What do we got?
I think we've opened up a wooden Pandora's box here.
I mean, look at all these timbers.
All different sizes and shapes.
I think we might have hit a collapsed tunnel.
Some sort of linear feature of wood that got disturbed.
Huh.
Excuse me, I'm going to go have a look.
We've only just got into it.
So we figured we'd give you a call
and see what you make of it before we dig it here.
Maybe we cut through the fabled flood tunnel.
Now we have to follow it back.
It could be yet another clue as to where
the original money pit was.
So let's go dig it up.
Come here, look at this!
Is this coconut fiber?
Think there's big chunks of coconut fiber.
That is very interesting.
Look at this, Rick.
Think that's coconut fiber?
That is interesting.
Well, it's hair-like.
Yeah.
And it's clumped, as well.
Yeah, no.
That is very interesting.
The presence of coconut fiber is curious.
Not only because the nearest indigenous coconut trees
are more than 1,500 miles away from Oak Island,
but also because it was discovered by Dan McGinnis
and his team some 60 feet deep in the original Money
Pit in 1804, and then by members of the Trudeau company
at Smith's Cove in 1850.
It was there that a massive layer of it
was discovered, covering and acting as a filter for the five
stone box drains, which converged
into the main flood tunnel that the team is
currently looking for.
If the material the team has found
can be scientifically verified to be coconut fiber,
it could mean the team is closer than ever to finding
and shutting off the booby trap that
has thwarted efforts to excavate the Money Pit
for more than two centuries.
How much of it is there, Jack?
There is a lot of it over here.
You'd need a lot to pack a lot of treasure.
We need to bag this.
So let's try to get a sample without touching it.
- Yeah. - Yep.
I can do that.
Open the bag, and use the bag like a glove.
Oh, yeah, there's a big chunk of it.
Grab a big clump.
There's still a bunch more.
Whole bunch more right there.
Yep.
This bit of coconut fiber makes me think that we
might be into original works.
There's a lot going on right here.
Rather massive structure going on here.
Yes.
There are only a few things that I
find absolutely unique to this quest, to this search.
And one of them is coconut fiber.
I want a definitive test, science-based, that
it is indeed coconut fiber.
So do I, Rick.
Is that enough of this, Rick?
Yeah.
I'll put it to safety.
I'm actually kind of excited about this.
Absolutely.