Fifty thousand ships pass through the straits each year and there is intense cross-straits traffic as well. I have been through there myself and it is really very chaotic when you are going through. The Bosporous and the Dardanelles are navigationally treacherous with many sharp turns. There are turns which are 45 degrees which is very, very difficult for a tanker to make. There are powerful and rapid currents.
Ships crash into the bedrooms of seaside villas.
Others mount the coast road by the fish restaurants. So many have rammed the cornice at the trickiest corner around Akintiburna that the municipality has given up repairing it. It is very, very difficult to go through there. The environmental conditions of the Straits is poor. Finally, Lloyds of London reports that only about fifty percent of tankers passing through the straits carry adequate insurance.