Knowing next to nothing about green turtles, they started reading the entries on them in encyclopedias and science dictionaries and went to ask the advice of Lin Chang-hsing, the head of the Penghu County Wild Bird Association, and Chen Yi-chun, a professor at National Ocean University, who had together written a booklet about green turtles and their environment.
對綠蠵龜一無所知的夫婦倆開始翻閱百科全書、科學辭典，向曾撰寫綠蠵龜生態解說手冊的澎湖縣野鳥協會理事長林長興，以及專門研究綠蠵龜的海洋大學教授程一駿請益。