Comment Re:I don't understand how this is a "record" (Score 3, Informative) 84
This is the headline:
Fabien Cousteau Takes Plunge To Beat Grandfather's Underwater Record
What is your source of confusion?
It's not a world record, it's longer than Jacques Cousteau did it.
True, but at first glance the reader might be thinking a "world record" and not a "family record". Only when delving into TFA does one discover that there is a carefully crafted (and accurate) headline enticing one to read a much less interesting story. Sure, a family record for diving in the Cousteau family is a bigger deal than say, most cigars smoked in a 4-hour period -- set by my grandfather in 1966 -- in my family. But, like so many true stories, they're both kind of lame.