The ship quickly sank to the bottom of 'the ocean'.
We've sailed across hundreds of miles of 'ocean'.
There's a storm moving in from 'the ocean'.
(..) There's a debriefing packet waiting for you back at your apartment. Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now? You should have left it in the ocean. Stark Tower is about to become a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy. Light her up. (..)2012 The Avengers
(..) I am. Trying to get me back in the world? Trying to save it. HYDRA's secret weapon. Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think. The Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something (..)2012 The Avengers