Reddit reviews Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir
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My brother in law used to be a commercial diver with the helmet and hoses going to the surface. He loaned me a book once that was written by a US Navy diver who was stationed in Pearl harbor during the Japanese attack. He told tales of fleshless finger bones rubbing against the wreck making a scraping sound. Stuff of ptsd for sure. The Koreans probably have a Critical Incident Stress Management team set up for the divers.
Edit: The book is called Descent into Darkness. Here's an amazon link:http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Into-Darkness-Harbor-Divers/dp/0891415890/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398275566&sr=8-1&keywords=descent+into+darkness
It entirely depends on circumstances. Shallow depth in warm water would tend to cause a faster breaking down. In the case of Oklahoma and Arizona, salvage was soon enough that there would have been remains, and it would have been down right nasty and creepy. Descent into Darkness is an excellent read into what the salvage divers had to deal with. I would cause it a nightmare.
Descent Into Darkness
Navy Divers performing rescue and salvage immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor.