Quote Originally Posted by rastaah View Post
I do know losing health while swimming puts you in combat but just assumed it was intended. I need to quit assuming My issue is I can be 'too' easy going and things may not bother me that bother some users. I will work on reporting these instances more though.
It puts you in combat so that you don't regenerate, natural or with food, past the drowning damage. I believe it was probably done to simplify the code versus writing another state a character could be in.