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Psalm 18 contains another theme I've noticed, that of burial in water. Why David was fascinated with drowning I don't know, but he used the motifs often. "I was at the bottom of the sea; seaweed wrapped around my head" (Jonah 2:5). David may have been fascinated with the Jonah prayer (I assume Jonah preceded the Psalms?).
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Here is another example of the water burial theme:
Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Jonah 2:3 You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers swept over me.
It seems either Jonah saw himself living out the psalmist's vision, or vice versa. And the image of being buried in deep waters appears fairly often in the Psalms for some reason.
Thus we can see two textual witnesses of Jesus' experience within the earth. "Just as Jonah was 3 days and nights in the belly of the whale, so shall be the Son of Man three days and nights in the heart of the earth."
Arguably those are the three most important days in history. So to have a kind of corroborated record, even if it's in impressionistic poetry, should be of some interest.