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  • - All right.

  • What do we got?

  • 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.

- All right.

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