If “water” is information or compromising information, then a destructive, spinning swirl of water, a waterspout (mini storm of information) is likely the declassification or movement of damaging blackmail info from one handler (blackhat?) to another (whitehat?).

Some were powerful waterspouts, one of which may have been responsible for the sinking of a large yacht off of Sicily.

-International Centre for Waterspout Research (ICWR)

https://watchers.news/2024/08/20/waterspout-outbreak-off-the-coast-of-northern-italy-and-sardinia/

Sicily is the HQ for one of the worldwide criminal syndicate factions, suspected to be one of 13 families near top of pyramid. If whitehats can takeout cabal players in their “home waters”, then the cabal is truly in a perilous state at the moment. They were probably captured, but need to appear to be missing or dead.