NTU proposed surveying, locating, conducting a trial dig, and estimating the value of the antiquities before beginning a full-scale salvage operation. But the MOE feared that Huang Jiajin was concerned only with salvaging items himself and that he wouldn't cooperate with its efforts.
台大提出先探勘、定位、試掘、評估古物價值後，再正式打撈的初步構想，但教育部認為黃加進不肯配合，一心想自行打撈。