The MOE ultimately chose not to make use of NTU's proposal, reportedly because it would have cost tens of millions of NT dollars and because Huang had never provided the wreck's precise location.
教育部最後並未採行台大所提的打撈計畫，據瞭解是因預算高達數千萬台幣，以及黃加進沒有明確指出沉船處而作罷。