Did you know that the piece of door that Rose takes refuge on in Titanic (1997) was based on an actual piece of the real ship’s wreckage?
The “door” is in actual fact based on a piece of wood panelling from above a doorway in the first-class lounge that was recovered from the Titanic wreck. It can be found at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The debate over whether both characters could’ve fit on the floating piece of debris has raged fierce since the release of James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster.
Many claim that there was adequate room for both Rose and Jack to fit, thus avoiding the tragic death of Jack (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) who freezes to death and sinks below the waves of the North Atlantic Ocean at the end of the movie. Others claim that buoyancy was the issue.
The tv show, MythBusters re-enacted the scene to try to put the argument to bed once and for all and found that there was indeed enough room for two people to fit. However, to do this they had to tie their life jackets to the floating piece of debris to increase its buoyancy. This would’ve been virtually impossible to do in the freezing waters of the Atlantic once hypothermia set in.
So that settles it. Basically Jack was doomed to meet the same fate either way.