I was playing in a snapshot and I am not sure how but I had a sponge a few possibly key events happened before I was under water killing squid and occasionally drowned and went to the surface to continue and when rapidly placing down and picking up water for black concrete and I noticed I had a sponge in my inventory also I have never been into an ocean monument before
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Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Cannot Reproduce.
We were unable to reproduce the problem you are describing in the latest version.
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According to the wiki, drowned have small chance of dropping a sponge when killed by the player. This currently only applies to Bedrock edition.