Out of curiosity, I went looking to see if this data has translated into thinking about ship design:

http://66.180.169.221/pdf/2007symp09.pdf

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PubServices/2005pdfs/Rosenthal.p...

http://www.ifremer.fr/web-com/molagnon/bv/Faulkner_w.pdf