The big buoyancy test to get the final answer once and for all.
Titanic piece of wood big enough.
I was in the water with the piece of wood putting people on it for about two days getting it exactly.
So far science and the titanic movie were running neck and neck and so far it looked like there was no way jack could have sat with rose on the wood.
Obviously it was an artistic choice the thing was just big enough to hold her and not big enough to hold him leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet with james cameron while shooting for titanic.
The artifact exhibition in las vegas.
However for james cameron the director of titanic the amount of room available on the raft was never a concern.
We knew there was a way jack and rose could have lived happily ever after in the hit movie titanic all rose needed to do was scoot over.
Even though it wasn t a door physics plus the estimated weight of jack and rose indicates that unless the wood was pine jack s survival was mathematically impossible.
It bears a striking resemblance to the piece of debris rose used as a life raft in the movie titanic and according to the museum influenced its design.
There was indeed enough space for both of them to fit together on the raft.
Jamie hyneman and adam savage the duo behind the discovery channel show mythbusters made that point on sunday s episode braving the waters of san francisco bay with an exact replica of the board that allowed rose to float to safety at the end of the movie.
I was in the water with the piece of wood putting people on it for about two days getting it exactly buoyant enough so that it would support one person with full free board meaning that she.
In fact time and again he has maintained that it was not the amount of space available on the raft but rather its buoyancy.
There you have it.
Underwater footage of the amazing recovery of rms titanic inc s big piece.
Remember in the 1997 film titanic when rose kate winslet and jack leonardo dicaprio were stranded in the middle of the freezing north atlantic sea after the boat hint an iceberg and sank.
The tests were not over yet.