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Shark attack survivor loses leg while surfing in Australia

Rank
Running: 26h
Updated: 14h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 4
Countries: 6
Languages: 3

CTV News Canada · English 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Српски (1) · +1 language

Read at CTV News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CTV News, 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Asharq Al-Awsat.
Second region: Middle East, with Asharq Al-Awsat.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 06:24 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%17%50%16%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 16%

First movers

CTV News 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat +3h 54m
The Independent +4h 4m
Irish Independent +4h 55m
Liberty Times +7h 33m

Latest arrivals

Blic 9 Oct, 14:30 UTC
Liberty Times 9 Oct, 10:03 UTC
Irish Independent 9 Oct, 07:25 UTC
The Independent 9 Oct, 06:33 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat 9 Oct, 06:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Canada. Asia-Pacific 1: Taiwan. Europe 3: Ireland, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Serbian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article CTV News, 9 Oct 2026, 02:30 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 02:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Australia. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.28, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories Shark attack survivor loses leg while surfing in Australia; Australian shark attack survivor fights off predator. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 184 4.17 6 6 6 6 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC · Updated 14:30 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 6 outlets

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Blic Serbia 9 Oct, 14:30 UTC
Ajkula mu odgrizla nogu dok je surfvovao, a OVAJ POTEZ mu je spasio život: "Pritiskao sam najjače što sam mogao"
Liberty Times Taiwan 9 Oct, 10:03 UTC
「鯊魚對我眨眼！」澳洲衝浪客遭咬斷腿劫後餘生揭驚恐瞬間
The Independent United Kingdom 9 Oct, 07:38 UTC
Shark attack survivor says predator 'winked' at him as he fought it off
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Australian shark attack survivor says predator was 'winking back' at him as he fought it off 9 Oct, 06:33 UTC
Irish Independent Ireland 9 Oct, 07:25 UTC
‘A wink and a smile’: Australian shark attack survivor reveals details of mauling
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 9 Oct, 06:24 UTC
Australian Shark Attack Survivor Says he Hit at the Predator's Eye in Effort to Fight it Off
CTV News Canada 9 Oct, 06:11 UTC
He thought he got hit by a dolphin. Then something grabbed him and dragged him down into the water.
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- Shark attack survivor speaks out after losing leg surfing in Australia 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC