Splashing down: can't end flight wihout loosing progress because ship is moving

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I don't know if this is new or not, bug or not, it's the first time I try to retrieve a vessel because of the science stuff. But if you splash down at the ocean then when you go to end the flight, you are informed that the current state will be restored to the last auto-save, and that it is so because your ship is moving on the surface (obviously it is! It's in the ocean!)

... So, this is something new? I find it odd that you cannot retrieve a vessel from the ocean, being that pretty much the entire history of manned space flights ended up with a vessel on the water.

[Depth]

There is a new Recover Vessel button above the altimeter, did you try that?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Aha! I didn't know that button existed. I was thinking I should end the flight and then go to the tracking center and hit the retrieve button.

Problem solved then! Thanks for the help.

[Superfluous J]

Before I learned of the recover button, I had this problem but on land. I EVA'd my Kerbal and then was able to end the flight, then recover him and the craft separately.