and as the excavation of what could be shaft 5

continues near Smith's Cove--

MARTY LAGINA: Guys, thanks for assembling on quick notice.

I appreciate it.

NARRATOR: --brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

have gathered members of the team in the War Room

to hear a scientific report via telephone conference

from geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

regarding the potential coconut fiber found there two days ago.

Yeah, Ian, you've got Marty and Rick

and Doug and Steve and Alex.

Well, we'd-- we'd like to think so.

Sure.

Anyway, I know you had some information.

OK.

Wow, so it's coconut fiber.

That's cool.

NARRATOR: News that the material that the team has found

is, in fact, coconut fiber is a potentially

historic development.

It suggests that after years of searching,

Rick, Marty, and the team may finally

be on the verge of locating the main flood tunnel, which was

constructed more than two centuries ago, in order

to protect something believed to be of great value buried

in the Money Pit.

MARTY LAGINA: You've never seen anything like it.

You've dug a lot of stuff out of the walls of soil, right?

Wow.

No, that's fabulous.

I mean, we found lots of structures in Smith's Cove.

But the difference is, this one we found now

has all this coconut fiber, and that's a pretty key difference.

RICK LAGINA: Absolutely.

MARTY LAGINA: Hey, thanks for the quick info on that.

That's pretty cool.

OK, good deal.

Thanks.

Cheers.

Bye.

Bye.

'Cause you've been questioning the lack of coconut fiber,

so it's kind of cool to come up with.

At least that says at one time there was some of this here.

It's something different.

It's confirmation of the old stories

that they found tremendous amounts of coconut fiber

when they were looking for the box drains.

And it appeared to have been placed as a filter.

Restalls noted that there were just gobs of it.

Not only that, but nobody else put

a bunch of coconut fiber down while they were

doing anything in Smith's Cove.

So it represents original work.

It represents original work.

MARTY LAGINA: Yeah, very cool.

RICK LAGINA: At the end of the day,

we were looking for evidence that would corroborate

or confirm the old story,

Yes.

Right?

Now we have this evidence that it is indeed coconut fiber.

MARTY LAGINA: So there's some kind of original something

going on here.

We're certainly finding what people

were originally looking for.

I think we're absolutely closing in.

OK, let's go.

We're going to find it out.