The campaign's purpose is to address the following research tasks:

1)    Document ship structure in situ, to begin the digital reconstruction of the “floating castle”: deck beams, gunwales, rudder, stern post, tiller, tiller arch, stem post, hawse pieces, knees
2)    Excavate at sternpost, to reveal the depth of keel and angle of keel knee
3)    Temporarily recover and 3D model ship elements (particularly knees, possibly gunwales and hawse pieces), sample knees for dendrochronology, then return to original find loci on wreck site (Mimma Dininno, Carolina Larsson, Anton Hansson, Hans Linderson)
4)    Recover sediment samples from spice locus, for continued archaeobotanical research (Mikael Larsson)
5)    Recover intact cask components, for continued analytical chemical analysis (Charlotta Turner)
6)    Systematically metal detect, to inform future excavation
7)    Visually survey and photo document ship elements beyond central wreckage concentration