[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Mythbusters took this one on. turns out that Cameron actually got this right, that size of broken plank made out of the type of wood it was would not have held both of them. they did figure out that if Rose had taken off her life jacket and tied it around the plank so that it sat underneath, it would have boosted the buoyancy enough so that they might have both been able to fit on. but as neither of them were MacGuyver, i guess they never thought of that