Coconut Fiber Fills Oak Island

The 600 lb. Gorilla on Oak Island is the presence of a minimum of 1.54 metric tons of coconut fiber found within the constructs of the Money Pit and the Filtration System at Smith's Cove. To visualize this volume of fiber, imagine 2.5 40 ft. Shipping containers compacted on a 2:1 ratio of this fiber.

There are many reports of the fiber piled bushels-high around the top platform at the Money Pit, as well as piles of raked up fiber for locals to take away along the beach area at Smith's Cove.

As late as the Restall's operation, fiber was collected and

island tourists helped themselves, even as it was piled near their living quarters. Both the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in 1995 and Robert Dunfield samples sent to a lab in 1976, report the coconut fiber as coconut coir fiber.

"Coir fiber" is a byproduct of a process called retting. This process takes the fibrous husk of coconuts and soaks and steeps them in a natural chemical fermentation soup, which actually enhances the strength, elasticity, buoyancy, and retards its biodegradability. Coir is renown for its long-lasting capabilities as cordage when used in saltwater. So what's the point?

Coconut husks or the fibers of the husk would naturally decompose within 4 to 5 years. Retted coir fiber, like that found on Oak Island, is now approaching 1200 years in age. So when you think there is nothing about the Oak Island mystery other than old wood, think again. Older still is the coconut coir fiber which didn't float on shore or in the swamp. It was intentionally placed within the constructs inside the island. How many coconuts would it take to create all that coconut coir fiber you ask? Approximately 18,000 coconut husks to do the job!

What say you? Think it was all just dunnage? Maybe it simply washed upon the beach over all that time, right? The answers are spelled out for you in Chapters 9 & 10 in the Book, and here in Appendix I, "Cuckoo for Coconuts," Appendix J, "History Looks for Coir," Appendix K, "Follow the Coconut Flotilla," and Appendix L, Dunnage Done - Floater A Foul."