Mount a Nautilus
position the nautilus just right at the very top of a water body
The Nautilus will play its out of water sound effects instead of the underwater ones.
(see commented clip)
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Neuauall
Can confirm. One way to address this would be to make it so the nautlius' Y velocity gets capped at 0 whenever the base of its hitbox is in water but its eyes are above the waterline and it is not dashing. This would slightly reduce the maximum height at which players could ride a nautilus when in water, but it would make it much easier to reach this maximum height (currently you must look just up from the horizon and tap W briefly until you are close to the maximum, and the nautilus gets pushed several blocks downwards if you overshoot by even a millimeter.)