Was playing with my bud for a bit and i accidentally fell into water and died. Laughed it off for a while but it turned into a serious issue. 

It wont let me respawn whatsoever and its been aggrivating me for a while now. I restarted the game and i tried escaping a few times already

please help. thanks

edit:

oh and this picture was taken after i restarted the game, to no avail

UPDATE

yes my character is still dead on the same spot please help

Same thing happened to me and now I can't play my character, this is a ridiculous bug that needs fixing because I shouldn't have to start all over again because the game is broken, if it doesn't get fixed I'll simply play something else because clearly this game has been a waste of time if water permanently breaks it