The stern was nearly completely blown off . They removed three propellers and stabilized ship structure enough so that she could be towed to a drydock. Divers from were there too with their underwater cutters working on USS New Orleans. Their salvage work in combat zones got a fleet tug a Battle Star. Two divers plus their support teams were put aboard in response to a secret dispatch from Commander South Service Force Pacific. Each of the submarine rescue ships had divers assigned too. was sent to Kiska Harbor after divers off confirmed the Japanese submarine I-7 was lying on the bottom in of water. Seven divers off the Florikan salvaged intelligence materials from the sub. Earlier in the year, at Kamimbo Bay, USS Ortolan divers recovered a pile of documents off the partially sunk Japanese submarine I-1 that was turned over to intelligence. The clearance of Manila harbor was a huge project where divers led by master diver Joseph S. Karneke from repeated the action. There they salvaged code books, maps of Japanese fortifications on Luzon plus 500,000 yen; it was a major intelligence coup. When Chanticleer first left the States part of its mission was to provide diver training to the fleet based out of Freemantle, Australia. The US Navy out of Australia sent divers down to recover intelligence off the Japanese submarine I-124 in just of water. When the Japanese took the Philippines a couple of the prisoners were USN divers, one was Robert Sheats. The Japanese quickly learned of what the Philippine Treasury had done with the silver that had been in the vault on Corregidor. Millions of dollars in silver coinage had been dumped in Caballo Bay, an inlet on greater Manila Bay, to keep it from falling into Japanese hands. The Japanese forced USN pow divers to retrieve the coinage. They did recover some of the treasure. However, the U.S. Army and Navy put together a hard hat diving unit in August 1945 that recovered millions of Pesos off . During WWII, "diver" was a qualification not a rate. First class divers could work depths while salvage and second class divers were qualified down to . Diving was considered "hazardous" by the Navy and the Navy adjusted pay for both the qualification as well as time and depth under water: $5 an hour or fraction of an hour for hazardous salvage work. Adjusted for