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Having miraculously escaped the sinking Titanic, Rose and Jack huddle in the water with a plank: shes on it and hes holding on for dear life. Eventually, the frigid water takes its toll, and Jack lifeless slips away from his beloved.

But in the two decades since the 1997 blockbuster Titanic hit theaters, fans still disagree on whether Leonardo DiCaprio s character could have survived if Kate Winslet had just scooched over a smidge. One viral image a few years back showed that, given the improvised rafts dimensions, two people could have fit without a doubt.

In the past, director James Cameron has stuck by his film , stating that the problem wasnt surface area but buoyancy. That is, the scrap of wood that floated Rose to safety couldnt have held two bodies in the open ocean.

Still, unlike poor Jack, the debate will not die.

While recently chatting to the director about the Trump administration, a reporter for The Daily Beast brought up the door theory once again .

Were gonna go there? the director began. Look, its very, very simple: you read page 147 of the script and it says, Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive. Its that simple.

Then he brought up the Mythbusters episode where hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage attempt to prove the director right. Although buoyancy is an issue, in the segment, the hosts realize they can tie their life jackets to the underside of the raft and fix the problem so two bodies can fit.

Cameron didnt buy that solution, though. He explained:

OK, so lets really play that out: youre Jack, youre in water thats 28 degrees, your brain is starting to get hypothermia. Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it wont just wash out two minutes laterwhich means youre underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and thats going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up youre already dead. So that wouldnt work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died.

On the subject of Hyneman and Savage, the director added: Theyre fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but theyre full of shit. As a man whos explored the deepest depths of the cold ocean floor, wed say Cameron might know what hes talking about.

Catch the Mythbusters segment in question below:

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