The RoRo ship MS UND ADRIYATIK was wrecked in February 2008 by a catastrophic fire. The causes of the accident included a combination of human, technical and organizational factors. In this study, the authors describe the accident, its chronology, and the dependencies involved. They then examine some of the erroneous series of human's operations, design and technical errors that led to the disaster and their organizational roots at the time of the accident. Risk-reduction measures can be costly, though; priorities must be set based on costs and benefits. This research suggests ways to support fire prevention efforts. Nine possible reasons were determined to perform a survey suitable for AHP technique. The purpose of this survey is to determine the order of possible explanations for this fire accident and possible provisions and precautions to be taken.

The Strait of Istanbul links the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and is called the Bosporus. The Bosporus is one of the most dangerous waterways in the World, and has geopolitical, strategic and economic importance with approximately 50,000 transit vessels per year. Maritime casualties through this dangerous waterway are mainly due to fire or explosion, capsizing, collision or contact, foundering, sinking, grounding, and stranding. The reason for the casualties depends on many factors that can be grouped as: human errors (the pilotage), technical unavailability, lack of visibility sea and weather conditions, and ship traffic density. This paper investigates the maritime casualties in the year of 2004 with classifying the casualty forms: as ship type, local time of casualty and dominant factors of casualty. It is also aimed to compare the variation of casualty characteristics with using the data of past years.

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