Eli5 why can’t they dredge up all the containers lost in the ocean last year when that ship capsized ?

Question

Eli5 why can’t they dredge up all the containers lost in the ocean last year when that ship capsized ?

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Answer 1

Recovering things from kilometers underwater = expensive.
Goods soaked in salt water and thrown around violently in the ocean = probably broken and not worth a lot.

So the simple answer is “it’s not worth it”.