I was in hardcore mode and spontaneously died.
I was swimming for a sunken ship and died out of nowhere the death message that was created was "death.fell.accident.water". I was told there was a similar bug by being near a waterlogged slab but that was not the case for me. I had half my air left and was swimming to the surface for more. The closest thing I was near was kelp.
Environment
MacOS, 1.16.5
Created Issue:
I was in hardcore mode and spontaneously died.
I was swimming for a sunken ship and died out of nowhere the death message that was created was "death.fell.accident.water". I was told there was a similar bug by being near a waterlogged slab but that was not the case for me. I had half my air left and was swimming to the surface for more. The closest thing I was near was kelp.
Environment
MacOS, 1.16.5

The missing message is MC-195467, but the rest I'm not sure.
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