When in water, you now have the slowed sinking in water but you cannot swim down faster by crouching.
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My nephew died in a deep river and we didn't have respiration or potions. Recovering his items was practically impossible. Most of my breath was gone by the time I hit the bottom.
Also, I tried to kill a spider from underwater but by the time I sank, he was right up on me.
Lots of problems with the project management of untested fixes and untested features for this update. 😞
Currently, yes crouching does not allow you to swim down because it's not a thing yet. It's a feature that has not been implemented yet. In the next major update, Update Aquatic, you'll be able to swim down by crouching.
Why oh why have we gone from being able to swim down to not being able to swim down, this is the most basic of features, my base is an island, picking up items that drop in the water has become nigh on impossible. This is a new bug introduced with 1.2.13,,,it is not a 'feature'
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This applies when 'experimental features' are not enabled. With experimental features enabled holding shift / crouch to sink faster works. This essentially makes doing anything in water impossible with experimental features off, including Realms where it doesn't seem possible to turn on experimental features.