| Summary: Detention of vessels, which are deemed unsafe to proceed to sea, which do not have the valid and compliant documents and which are not equipped with enough personnel prevents the sea accidents. In this context, with the aim of preventing sea accidents, detailed inspections should be carried out and vessels that fail to meet the necessary conditions should not be allowed to sail, In this study carried out for his purpose, the data related to the vessels detained between 2008- 2013 in PSC inspections within the scope of Black Sea Memorandum and the reports of the sea accidents in Black Sea have been comparatively analyzed. Furthermore, with the help of Open FTA programme, Fault Tree Analysis has been conducted by establishing groups of data which is related with reasons for accidents. It has been determined that the vessel detentions and sea accidents show parallelism with parameters such as the type, age and gross tonnage of the vessel. Moreover it has been identified that the most common sea accidents are ship grounding/adrift and adverse weather conditions, defined as external factors that cannot be controlled, are the causes of the accidents with the highest percentage of 48,3%.
Key Words: Black Sea Memorandum, Port State Control, Fault Tree Analysis.
Ship Detentions, Ship Accidents, |
