Sunday 17 April 2022 · below the Index · spike
Ever Forward grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated
Container ship Ever Forward, operated by Evergreen, was refloated on April 17, 2022, after running aground in the Chesapeake Bay approximately one month earlier. The vessel was freed following a major salvage operation aided by high tides.
Peak 104.7 on Monday 18 April 2022. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Mixed, both over the window and on the peak day. Mixed means no single signal dominated — the attention was spread across search, research, news and social. Social here is X alone — Bluesky only joins the series from July 2024 — so its level isn't directly comparable with today's series, though its share of this incident is real.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 87% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Thursday 17 March 2022.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Readers here means readers of the Wikipedia article on each vessel type — the same source as the Research signal, not news coverage — so an incident can dominate the news without moving this panel. Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: human drama. Trade press was 0% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 55% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor.
How the coverage sounded
Coverage ran 2% negative overall.
Each article is scored on a five-step scale from strongly negative to strongly positive; the bar is the share of coverage at each step.
Sample of the headlines
- Stuck container ship Ever Forward finally refloated after a monththeguardian.com · 2022-04-17
- Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship Ever Forward refloated after a month stranded off US east coastscmp.com · 2022-04-17
- After Five Weeks, Container Ship Is Freed in the Chesapeakenytimes.com · 2022-04-17
- Ever Forward, Container Ship Stuck in Chesapeake for Weeks, Refloated and Movingmsn.com · 2022-04-18
- ever forward: Stuck container ship in Chesapeake Bay finally refloatedindiatimes.com · 2022-04-18
- Ever Forward, container ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay for weeks, finally freedcbsnews.com · 2022-04-17
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title.
- social = X only before Bluesky (2024-07-01); not comparable with today's series
- Registered in a single underlying series only — one vessel-type article, news term or social query — and never moved the Index itself.
- The coverage panels count only articles matched to this incident specifically.
Maritime Attention Index, incident: Ever Forward grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated, peak 104.7 on 18 April 2022. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2022-ever-forward-grounded-in-chesapeake-bay-refloated/