The US Navy, using the best available assets, quickly recovered an FA/18 fighter which had blown overboard in heavy seas only a month ago...
The aircraft was recovered from a depth of approximately 9,500 feet by a team from Task Force (CTF) 68, Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), Harry S. Truman, Naval Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic, and U.S. Sixth Fleet embarked on the multi-purpose construction vessel (MPV) Everest.
That's impressive speed to conduct such an operation in only 27 days...I'm sure that less friendly nations were hoping to do the job themselves, thus learning what we know......Ben