When reports of another sunken vessel began to circulate in the harbor at Magong in 2002, the museum put together a proposal requesting permission from the Ministry of Education to carry out another undersea expedition.
此後，雖然學界仍偶爾聽聞澎湖或東沙群島海域疑似發現沉船，但因水下文物的考掘只是教育部極邊緣的業務，因此正式的水下考古工作幾乎完全停頓。