After Forensic Testing, James Cameron Is Making a TITANIC Special to Prove Jack Couldn't Have Survived

For the last 25 years, fans of director James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning film Titanic have had one major problem with the film that they’ve been very vocal about sharing with Cameron. The big issue is that in the end of the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack treads water in the freezing ocean alongside Kate Winslet’s Rose, who is inexplicably wearing a life jacket whilst taking up the entire floating piece of wood that’s keeping her out of the water. This wooden slab looks fairly roomy, and it seems as though Rose could have scootched over a bit to make room for her frosty beau, saving him from his ultimate demise, and fans have debated this since the movie was released. But could that have even worked?

There was even a Mythbusters episode in which they tested out the theory of Jack sharing the wooden raft, and they concluded that Jack and Rose could have survived if they had taken their one life jacket and somehow fastened it beneath the raft, giving them enough buoyancy to both stay afloat on top. Cameron ended up saying the experiment results were “full of shit.”

Now James Cameron is looking to put an end to the debate once and for all. In a recent interview with Post Media (via the Toronto Sun), promoting Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron said he’s making a new documentary special which will truly test the hypothesis:

“We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to do a little special on it that comes out in February. We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.”

It will premiere in congruence with the remastered Titanic, which is headed to theaters this Valentines Day, 2023. It sounds like Cameron is dead set on proving he’s right, so it sounds a little biased. I think he should invite the Mythbusters to his experiment to keep him honest. What do you think?