USS Oklahoma was not scrapped
She was salvaged, found not worth it to be repaired. While in tow back to the USA she took on water and sank.
the Hipper, is found,, though not divable as she is quite deep, but water clarity allows that on calm days and a bright moon you can see her from above in a aircraft.
The pumping of the Arizona is not so simple as you might think, Her fuel is Bunker C, a thick tarry type fule that must be heated to about 120 degreesf to luquify enough to pump. If you were to heat up her tanks to that temp, the expansion would rupture her hull, and also, she is near collapse, heating her would casue the metal to expand and crack, thus possibly causing further pollution.
The DKM Adm Sheer still exists in part. She was partally salvaged on her Superstructure but most of her remains. It was filloed over after the war and is a car parking lot now in Kiel.
Fuso is found, but in two lrge sections, about 2000yds apart. No one can really expain why so far apart, but it happened.
You should look up the wreck of the HMS Victoria of 1893, A vertical shipwreck,, really something to see!!! She nosedived into the mud, and stayed that way, now over 100 years.
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