James Cameron defends Titanic's ending: "That floating door could not have held two people"

The Oscar-winning director of Titanic has finally commented on the long-running dispute over the ending of his 1997 blockbuster hit - was there room for both Rose and Jack on the piece of wood debris?

Earlier, in 2012, Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters proved they could both have survived using their lifejackets tied to the door for added buoyancy.

“OK, so let’s really play that out,” Cameron said. “You’re Jack, you’re in water that’s 28 degrees F, 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 won’t just wash out two minutes later — which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree F water, and that’s going to take you 5-to-10 minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead. So that wouldn’t 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.”

Cameron added: “They’re fun guys and I loved doing that show (Mythbusters) with them, but they’re full of sh–.”

Back in 2012, when the Mythbusters team first presented Cameron with the results from their tests, Cameron said “I think you guys are missing the point here. The script says Jack dies, he has to die. Maybe we screwed up. The board should have been a tiny bit smaller. But the dude’s going down.”