History of Diving

I'm doing a paper on the history of underwater archaeology which, as of now is mostly the history of diving itself.
Water has been overlooked for so long in science when not involving simply the creatures that reside amidst it.

People have been shown to have been diving for at least 6,500 years and have built contraptions like bells to keep them down longer for at least 2,300 years.

The man known for his comet, Halley, also invented a bell that could keep people under for an infinite amount of time as long as casks of new air were handed down from a ship above and released into the bell. There was actually a cooling system that kept the divers' breath from creating too intense of a heated environment in the bell. The only issue was depth, where the further down you go, the more water fills the bell.

With that said, here is one story written about the use of a Halley bell in the waters around Turkey:

From: The London Annual Register of August 29, 1775

There is also a ghoulish story about an incident that took place in 1790. A team of divers using a Halley diving bell were sent to Senaglio Point in the Bosporus to salvage a shipwreck. Minutes after starting their descent, they signaled frantically to be brought back to the surface. When they were pulled up, the horror-stricken divers refused to go down again. At the bottom they had come on an amazing spectacle: hundreds of life-sized dolls in the shape of bowling pins, with skulls for heads. Most of them had been toppled over, but there were rows of them jammed upright among the rocks or stuck in the mud and slime, slightly swaying to and fro in unison whenever the current moved them and, of course, grinning “with lipless grin,” as though beckoning the divers to approach. The divers had stumbled on the spot where generations of concubines from the seraglio had been ritually murdered by being sewn up alive in sacks weighted with stones, with only their heads protruding, and then thrown into the sea at night from boats. The women had either fallen victim to court intrigue or somehow offended the Grand Signor (some of them had as many as 2,000 concubines at one time.) Sultan Ibrahim I, who reigned from 1640 to 1648, was said to have drowned his entire harem of 1,200 concubines. The eerie Loreleis that had frightened the divers were their skeletal remains.