2nd Advanced Engineering Symposium , Mersin, Turkey, 16 March 2022, vol.1, no.2, pp.50-52
Maritime activities are one of the most important activities around the world. While
maritime activities are carried out, various accidents such as collision, grounding,
flooding, and on-board accidents occur. The causes of the accidents are determined and
recorded with reports. However, records of accidents in inland waters are rare. Since the
maritime activities carried out in inland waters remain regional and the boats operating
in inland waters are of small size or small tonnage, the accidents that occur are not
recorded and detailed reports are not prepared. For this reason, to draw attention to the
accidents in inland waters and maritime activities, this study has been prepared by
examining the accidents of grounding, collision, and flooding in Van Lake. In the study,
the causes of the accidents obtained by the questionnaire and the research were
analyzed with the "Fault Tree". As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that
factors such as carelessness, lack of information, overconfidence, bad weather
conditions, and lack of communication equipment are the main causes of accidents.