The sailors recounted how, in the days before the ships had high-quality navigation equipment, a supply ship approaching Taiping Island was caught in a fog. Visibility was so poor that the ship was unable to find the nearby island, which has an average elevation of only 3.8 meters above sea level.
海軍人員敘述，以前艦艇導航設備不佳時，有艘補給艦前往太平島運補，因起霧能見度極差，一直找不到就在附近、海拔約三．八公尺的太平島。