text: It was a cause of the 7 August 1992 grounding of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) off Cuttyhunk Island, near Marthas Vineyard. The liners speed at the time was  and the draft was .  The rock upon which the vessel grounded was an uncharted shoal later determined to be , which should have given her room to spare, were it not for the "squat effect."  U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators found that the QE2s officers significantly underestimated the amount the increase in speed would increase the ships squat.  The officers allowed for  of squat in their calculations, but the NTSB concluded that squat at that speed and depth would have been between . 
  Squat is also mentioned as a factor in the collision of the bulk carriers Tecam Sea and Federal Fuji in the port of Sorel, Quebec, in April 2000.
  The  third largest cruise ship in the world, MS Oasis of the Seas, used this effect to obtain an extra margin of clearance between the vessel and the Great Belt bridge, Denmark, 1 November 2009, on a voyage from the shipyard in Turku, Finland to Florida, USA.  The new cruise liner passed under the bridge at 20 knots (37 km/h) in the shallow channel, giving the ship extra clearance due to a 30 cm squat.