Steve Shieh, an expert diver, recalls that several years ago a friend of his working in an undersea archaeological site in Europe told him that Western nautical records state that between 1620 and 1665, more than 20 ships were lost in the waters around Penghu and Taiwan.
潛水專家謝新曦指出，幾年前，他在歐洲海洋考古所的一位友人曾提及，根據西方的航海紀錄指出，從一六二○到六五年間，澎湖及台灣海域共有二十餘艘沉船。