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Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after rescue attempt

Rank
Ran
24h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
3

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The Korea Herald South Korea · English 2 Oct, 10:44 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · +1 language

Read at The Korea Herald

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 24 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 6h 12h 18h 24h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Blick, 2 Oct, 10:04 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Korea, with The Korea Herald.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Korea Herald.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 10:04 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

25 of 25 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%50%25%12%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Blick 2 Oct, 10:04 UTC
  2. The Korea Herald +39m
  3. South China Morning Post +3h 22m
  4. Arab News +7h 30m
  5. CTV News +8h 36m

Last to join

  1. The Independent 3 Oct, 10:28 UTC
  2. Thanh Niên 3 Oct, 06:19 UTC
  3. Yonhap 3 Oct, 05:27 UTC
  4. CTV News 2 Oct, 18:40 UTC
  5. Arab News 2 Oct, 17:34 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Stray bull shark becomes celebrity in South Korea, 29 to 30 Sept 2026, 6 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 2 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Canada. Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam. Europe 2: Switzerland, 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
German, English, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Blick, 2 Oct 2026, 10:04 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 10:28 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, South Korea. 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
Continues Stray bull shark becomes celebrity in South Korea. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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
2 Oct 2026 274 4.25 5 5 5 5 4.0
3 Oct 2026 253 3.04 8 7 4 3 4.0

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Started 2 Oct, 10:20 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 10:28 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CTV News Canada 2 Oct, 18:40 UTC
    Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after second rescue attempt ends

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 3 Oct, 06:19 UTC
    Cá mập lớn vào cảng, người Hàn Quốc vui buồn xem giải cứu
  • The Korea Herald South Korea 3 Oct, 06:08 UTC
    Shark returns to Busan waterway after second rescue bid fails
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Busan shark's second rescue attempt ends without success 2 Oct, 10:44 UTC
  • Yonhap South Korea 3 Oct, 05:27 UTC
    Shark returns to canal a day after 2nd rescue attempt
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 2 Oct, 13:27 UTC
    Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after second rescue attempt

Europe 2 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 3 Oct, 10:28 UTC
    Shark trapped in South Korea’s Busan canal remains stranded after second rescue attempt fails
  • Blick Switzerland 2 Oct, 10:04 UTC
    Hai sitzt in südkoreanischem Kanal fest

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 2 Oct, 17:34 UTC
    Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after second rescue attempt ends
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