A 'Titanic' Myth: Would Jack Have Survived if Rose Had Shared the Door?

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Adam and Jamie get into character and figure out whether the buoyancy of a wooden board would allow for both Jack and Rose to survive the frigid North Atlantic in "Titanic."

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[arcticfoxgaming]

Everyone is talking about how Jack's sacrifice was pointless or that he was a hero, but no one is going to talk about the drunken baker who threw the debris out of the ship so people would hang onto something?

[joblessdude]

Maybe she Made up the story' and the actual story' is she panicked and kick him hard on head causing unconsious and drown

[yannick]

Why couldn't Jack just swim to the cameraman and ask for help? Smh, movie is unrealistic.

[elscourou]

The sad part is, you'd be so cold, so tired, and so in shock, you may not even be able to necessarily think that technically

[DairokutenMaoUwU]

Jack's death wasn't needless.. he died for the ratings

[No-ucts]

One of the largest ships in the world

One door for rose and jack to float on

[Kuromitsu]

Everyone: *talking about Jack and Rose
Me: *Getting emotional for the old couple laying in the bed while the room is getting flooded

[cdagyekybcrpaa]

While I don't dispute the idea that both Jack & Rose would have been able to share the space on the DoorFrame, I still would argue that if they did so, as the MythBusters demonstrate in this video, they would have both been partially submerged with 20% of their bodies exposed to the water and would face severe hypothermia, or at the very least major frostbite. Keep in Mind: during the actual sinking of the Titanic, the water was −2 °C, which is lethally cold and would kill most people in 15 minutes of exposure, and that's if your body didn't go into immediate shock. And even then, several of the people pulled out of the water would still succumb to hypothermia (only 6 people pulled out of the water survived). Hell, one of the collapsible boats during the event was partially submerged with a foot of water, and several of its occcupants died of hypothermia in the night. So personally, I doubt that, realistically, Jack & Rose would have both survived on that frame had they shared it.

[trash]

if rose wasnt stubborn and stayed in the lifeboat, jack could've found that door and they both would've been saved.

[emmaleigh]

James Cameron has said that Jack needed to die for the audience to feel the loss of the thousand+ real people. We were hoping for a happy ending and Rose and Jack to have a great life together. Most of the people that died were coming to America with the hope of a great life or at the very least a better life than the one that they had left behind.

[reidshriver]

Now throw in the freezing water and the panicking.

[zyloproductions]

My theory is that Jack didn't get on the door, even though he could fit, because his strength was failing. Icy water literally shuts down your body bit by bit within a minute. He didn't have the strength to balance it out, and he couldn't pull himself aboard, because his muscles were too cold. Rose's body was also shutting down too, leaving her with no strength to pull him up. I made this theory because a real life couple in Collapsible Lifeboat A actually died exactly like this, one dangling in the water, while one held on for as long as he could while he succumbed to the icy water that had flooded the lifeboat.

[clay]

Rose: I’ll never let go, Jack...I’ll never let go...
*4 minutes later*
Rose: *unclips Jack’s hand from the raft*
Jack as a ghost: *am i a joke to you??*

[bsjeffrey]

i foresee a sequel where the board sinks after hitting an ice cube.

[AwesomeVidzChannel]

It was a door? I thought it was just a random piece of wood...

[bobbydigital]

One thing people keep forgetting is that any situation your in becomes 100 times more difficult when it's in freezing temperature

[yeeyee]

Okay im no genius
But
Maybe there was some other item that jack could have swam over to?
Idk

[aaronmoreton]

The point was that to the movie the freezing cold water was so cold it would impair your thought process. You cant think your way through.

[xordux]

Everybody has got a plan until they get submerged in ice cold water. - Jack

[AntarikshRajkonwar]

Jack is representing those people who have lost their lives and Rose is representing those who have lost their loved ones that night. Titanic had a tragic end, that's why the movie was made in that way and at the end Jack had to die. It would've been worse if there was happy ending as it is not supposed to be.