--- title: Did Jack Dawson Survive the Titanic in Real Life description: A group of clever Westminister students have used math and research to show that there was room for Jack on the that door. canonical: https://time.com/5017163/titanic-jack-door-theory/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-09T16:58:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:36.493Z og:title: Students Use Math to Prove Titanic's Jack Could Have Survived og:description: Never let go og:url: https://time.com/5017163/titanic-jack-door-theory/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d032472df57ccd3/6988d744196cf45ceb041302/james-cameron-titanic-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Kate Winslet And Leonardo DiCaprio In 'Titanic' og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Students Use Math to Prove Titanic's Jack Could Have Survived twitter:description: Never let go twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d032472df57ccd3/6988d744196cf45ceb041302/james-cameron-titanic-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # There Was Definitely Room for Jack On That Door in _Titanic_. 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(Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Kate Winslet offers her hand to Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from the film 'Titanic', 1997\. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Archive Photos—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 9, 2017 4:58 PM UTC If there’s one thing that all [_Titanic_](http://time.com/4874863/james-cameron-titanic-documentary/)fans can agree on (including [super fan Neil deGrasse Tyson](http://time.com/4970915/did-jack-survive-the-titanic/)), it’s that there was definitely room for Jack to get on that floating door with Rose. Now, a group of Westminister, Australia students have used math to prove that there was legitimately room for both Jack and Rose on the door – and got an award in the process. According to [_The Advertiser_](http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/west-beaches/westminster-school-girls-use-maths-to-prove-whether-titanic-character-jack-could-have-survived-ships-sinking/news-story/9f3e54cfb79210c43690b601cd397e89), Abigail Wicks, Christy Zhang, and Julia Damato used their own research and math to show that the ill-fated couple could have survived if they had both hopped on the door and put their life jackets under it to keep the whole thing afloat. Their work earned them the top spot of the Year 10 section of the National Maths Talent Quest and also earned them the first slot of their section in the state-based MASA Junior Secondary Mathematics Enrichment Project Awards. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5017163/titanic-jack-door-theory/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5017163/titanic-jack-door-theory/"},"headline":"There Was Definitely Room for Jack On That Door in Titanic. 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