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Europe / Finland · Shipping & Trade

Unknown object halted Helsinki-Tallinn ferry traffic, proved harmless

Rank
Ran
37h
Updated
11h ago
Closed
Outlets
11
Regions
1
Countries
6
Languages
7

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ERR Estonia · English 4 Oct, 06:07 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Polski (3) · Svenska (2) · Eesti (1) · Italiano (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Suomi (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 38 hours.

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0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: SVT, 3 Oct, 20:17 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 20:17 UTC.
  3. Second country: Italy, with TGCOM24.
  4. Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

38 of 38 hours

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

The regions

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  • Europe 11 outlets · 6 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. SVT 3 Oct, 20:17 UTC
  2. Aftonbladet +0m
  3. TGCOM24 +1h 35m
  4. Onet +4h 5m
  5. Wirtualna Polska +5h 58m

Last to join

  1. Yle 5 Oct, 10:08 UTC
  2. Helsingin Sanomat 4 Oct, 09:03 UTC
  3. Lrytas 4 Oct, 07:53 UTC
  4. TVN24 4 Oct, 06:27 UTC
  5. ERR 4 Oct, 06:07 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 6 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 3 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 6: Estonia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden. 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, Estonian, Finnish, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article SVT, 3 Oct 2026, 20:17 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 10:08 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 Europe, Finland. Topic Shipping & trade. Hard news Judged hard news. On 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
0.05, 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.
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
3 Oct 2026 314 2.54 3 2 3 2 4.0
4 Oct 2026 116 4.55 10 6 8 5 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 20:20 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 10:08 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Europe 11 outlets

  • Yle Finland 5 Oct, 10:08 UTC
    Unidentified object found in sea off Helsinki turns out to be from old shipwreck
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland 4 Oct, 09:03 UTC
    Suomen­linnan operaatio | Veneilijä kertoo nähneensä oudon esineen meressä jo perjantaina
  • Lrytas Lithuania 4 Oct, 07:53 UTC
    Dėl įtartino objekto buvo laikinai sustabdytas keltų eismas tarp Helsinkio ir Talino
  • TVN24 Poland 4 Oct, 06:27 UTC
    Podejrzany dryfujący metalowy przedmiot. Wstrzymano ruch promów
  • ERR Estonia 4 Oct, 06:07 UTC
    Object that halted Helsinki–Tallinn ferry traffic turns out harmless
  • Postimees Estonia 4 Oct, 05:16 UTC
    Helsingi laevateed sulgenud objekt osutus vana laevavraki osaks
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 4 Oct, 02:15 UTC
    Alert w Helsinkach. Znaleziono podejrzany dryfujący przedmiot
  • Aftonbladet Sweden 4 Oct, 01:21 UTC
    Föremål stoppade sjötrafiken – var ofarligt
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Färja stoppad – mystiskt föremål i vattnet 3 Oct, 20:18 UTC
  • Onet Poland 4 Oct, 00:23 UTC
    U wybrzeży Helsinek znaleziono podejrzany dryfujący metalowy przedmiot
  • TGCOM24 Italy 3 Oct, 21:52 UTC
    Finlandia, oggetto non identificato trovato in mare al largo di Helsinki: bloccato il traffico navale
  • SVT Sweden 3 Oct, 20:17 UTC
    Okänt föremål hittat – fartygstrafiken i Helsingfors begränsas
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