Yang Feng-pin, an engineer on the boat, summoned up the courage to write a request on Huang's behalf to the boat's British captain, requesting that he allow this child, so thin that he could be blown into the sea by the wind, go back on the boat to Taiwan to recover.
隨船的楊逢濱工程師遂奮勇代他寫簽呈給英籍船長，請求船長准許這名瘦得隨時可能被風刮到海裡去的孩子隨船到台灣養病。