 The crew consisted of 18 Hong Kongers, one mainland Chinese, one person from Macau, one Canadian, and one Australian.The expedition marked the tenth anniversary of the group's first expedition to the islands, and it also served to commemorate the death of David Chan Yuk-cheung, a member of the first expedition who drowned while trying to land on the islands.The crew reached the islands but was unable to actually make a landing, due to interception by the Japanese coast guard.