The drowing particles appear to be time based and dont consider if the player is actually drowning.
This only happens for other players. The behavior is correct for yourself in F5 mode.
MC-280489
Drowning particles appear for other players in Creative mode
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We do not have enough information to reproduce this issue.
I tried dropping into water in both 1.21.4 and 25w10a in creative mode, and went into the F5 camera. I was unable to reproduce this issue; no drowning particles appeared while I was in creative.
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