My opinions are thus:

If you're building a line on the beach, probably.

In the deep sea, natural breaking waves are likely less of a hazard than the waves themselves.

However, also in the deep sea, it's uncommon any meaningful guidance or attention to unnatural breaking waves for pipelines to be made - only for the hull.

For example:

[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/ip62Dn-CpbY?t=276[/video]