Chen Hsin-hisung, an associate professor of history at National Chengkung University, adds that though many Ming and Qing ships have already been uncovered in the seas around Asia, it would be historically significant if Sung or Yuan era ships could be recovered from around Penghu.
成大歷史系副教授陳信雄也認為，如今在亞洲海域出土的多屬明、清之船，如果澎湖能找到文獻記載較少的宋、元時期海船，那歷史意義大矣。