On April 15, 1912 tragedy struck. The R.M.S. Titanic was struck by an iceberg and sank, killing an overwhelming number of 1,517 people.

On Dec. 19, 1997 an award winning movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premiered, spotlighting the tragic event and putting the viewer directly in 1912. DiCaprio plays a witty and adventurous character named Jack Dawson, and Winslet plays a young, engaged Rose DeWitt Bukater. Throughout the movie, the two characters quickly fall in love with each other.

However, on that devastating night, the pair found themselves fighting for their own and each other’s lives. As stated before, the ship struck an iceberg and because of this, Dawson and Buttaker find themselves in freezing water. Things are falling off the ship before it goes under the water of the Atlantic, and they come upon a door floating.

The pair could have fit on the door and both could have survived the tragic night together.

If the two would have put more thought into a plan instead of not acting because of impulse and fear, DeWitt could have moved herself over and made room for Dawson. There were multiple ways he could have fit onto that door with her.

The door also would not have flipped if they did get on the door together, and they were careful enough when they tried to get Dawson onto the door, then once he got onto the door, they could have moved to make enough room for each other and balance the door on top of the water at the same time.

If they would have thought this through and Dawson lived, DeWitt would have had no reason to say.

“And now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me, in every way that a person can be saved. I don’t even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory,” DeWitt said.

And therefore she would not need to mourn over Dawson as she was. If only he had gotten onto the door with her and to safety like her.