Saturday 9 April 2022 · below the Index · spike
UN seeks funds to prevent Red Sea tanker disaster
The UN appealed for $80 million to prevent a tanker disaster in the Red Sea. The spike was driven primarily by research interest and widespread news syndication of this appeal, alongside concurrent coverage of the Frontline-Euronav merger and tanker market developments.
Peak 68.3 on Saturday 9 April 2022. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Public curiosity-led, both over the window and on the peak day. 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 66% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Thursday 7 April 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: pollution event. Trade press was 2% 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 0% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor.
How the coverage sounded
Coverage ran 66% 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
- UN seeks $80 million to prevent tanker disaster in Red Seachron.com · 2022-04-08
- UN seeks $80 million to prevent tanker disaster in Red Seakob.com · 2022-04-08
- UN seeks $80 million to prevent tanker disaster in Red Sea :: WRAL.comwral.com · 2022-04-08
- UN Seeks $80 Million to Prevent Tanker Disaster in Red Sea – NBC New Yorknbcnewyork.com · 2022-04-09
- United Nations seeks $80 million to prevent tanker disaster in Red Seabusiness-standard.com · 2022-04-09
- World News | .UNITEDNATIONS/GENEVA FES7 UN-YEMEN-TANKER UN Seeks USD80 Million to Prevent Tanker Disaster in Red Sea By Edith M Ledererlatestly.com · 2022-04-09
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: UN seeks funds to prevent Red Sea tanker disaster, peak 68.3 on 9 April 2022. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2022-un-seeks-funds-to-prevent-red-sea-tanker-disaster/