Goofs

The drawing of Rose retrieved from the safe is noticeably different from the version Jack sketched.

(at around 1h 35 mins) While Rose and Jack are having sex in the Renault, Rose's hand leaving a print on the rear window. Immediately after that, the camera moves inside the car, and the hand print is in a lower part of the window, and a different shape.

(at around 1h) Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to escort them to dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot, they are still standing apart.

After the drawing is completed and Rose has dressed, she is not wearing her engagement ring. Several scenes from then until the final sinking show her left hand without the ring. When she is underwater after the stern has sunk, the violent suction of the water pulls the ring off her finger and into the vortex.

When Jack and Rose first meet at the stern, Rose is clearly wearing jeweled, slip-on shoes and black stockings. When she is lying on the deck after Jack rescues her, she is wearing red lace-up boots.

Shots of the Titanic steaming at night and just before hitting the iceberg show a great deal of lights on the foredeck and from the cabin windows on the front of the ship facing the foredeck. Atlantic liners would not have so much light showing forward of the bridge; the glare would interfere with navigation at night.

The blue diamond "Le Coeur de la Mer" is stated as having 56 carats which would put its weight at 11.2 grams, which would be much too light for a diamond this size.

Jack is held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms' office, which has a porthole. On the Titanic, that office was an interior room, with no portholes.

Passengers were not allowed at the forecastle head, or bow. The sign "Passengers Not Allowed Beyond This Point" was mounted on the leeward side of the forward breakwater (both port and starboard), and was missing in the film.

(at around 27 mins) The Titanic's middle propeller was powered by a Parsons steam turbine, which ran off expelled steam from the two main reciprocating engines. This meant that the turbine could only run when a full head of steam had been generated. It would not and could not have been used for maneuvering in port. Hence, the middle propeller would have been stationary when starting away from the dock.

Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose pays Jack with is a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916. Unlike a modern dime, the portrait of Liberty on the head faces to the right, not the left.

It's very possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown. A number of papers, preserved because they were stored in leather bags or other containers, have been recovered from the Titanic's wreckage.

When Rose is considering jumping off the ship toward the beginning of the movie, she is not wearing the necklace she had on at dinner. Her hair is also different. In a deleted scene, Rose runs back to the parlor suite, tears off her necklace, lets her hair down, and in a fit of rage, destroys some items in her bedroom before running to the stern.

(at around 1h 35 mins) When the ship is bearing down on the iceberg, the officer orders the helmsman to put the helm hard to starboard and later hard to port. In each case, the helmsman appears to do exactly the opposite. Prior to the advent and mass popularity of the automobile, a ship's wheel was rigged so turning the wheel clockwise (or right) turned the ship left (port). Only after a generation of drivers had grown up driving cars that the shipping industry began rigging their wheels to conform.

Santa Monica had a number of roller coasters as early as 1904. Jack tends to embellish his stories to make his point.

(at around 2h 50 mins) After the Titanic sinks, a lifeboat returns to look for survivors. The officer in the boat is shouting and his voice echoes, which shouldn't happen in the middle of the ocean.

Near the end of the movie, when the Titanic is nearly vertical, a man falling off the ship hits one of the capstans, and it bends, showing that it's clearly made of rubber.

(at around 1h 30 mins) After Jack and Rose take a shortcut through the engine room to escape Lovejoy, there is no soot on Rose's pale blue gown.

Rose's hair defies gravity when she is atop the sinking ship. Her hair should be hanging down or at least moving in the cold wind as the scene suggests, but it is perfectly still and horizontal in respect to the sinking ship.

During the ship's flyover shot, a lady in a burgundy coat is walking, but her feet don't touch the ground.

Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir created in 1917.

(at around 34 mins) Rose mentions Sigmund Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. Freud published the work relating to that in 1920. Freud also relied solely on data from females until 1919.

The underwater shots of the propellers are incorrect. The famous photo of the ship in dry dock and the men standing under the propellers clearly shows that the propellers were bolted together with giant nuts. Underwater shots of the propellers show smooth metal, suggesting welding, which was not available until WWII.

When Rose arrives in New York Harbor, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is copper green. It was brown when it arrived in 1886, and took over 35 years for it to change color. In 1912, it would have been partly brown. The torch also has a gold flame, installed in 1986.

When Jack and Fabrizio are running to board the Titanic, Jack's rucksack is standard issue Swedish Army gear, circa 1939.

After the collision with the iceberg, the Captain orders all engines stopped. The telegraph bells only ring once, meaning the other engine would still be in full reverse, which clearly isn't.

During the church service, the pianist hits the keys, but he doesn't move his hands to change chords or hit any other notes, higher or lower.

While on deck, Jack asks Rose, "Do you love the guy or not?" The shot changes to show Rose's reaction. Jack's jaw moves, as if he's repeating the question, but he's not heard.

(at around 2h 40 mins) When Rose and Jack are on the ship as it is going down vertically, Jack says "Hold on!" about a second before his lips move.

(at around 54 mins) When Jack pulls Rose's hand to spit off the deck with him, Rose says, "Jack, no" multiple times. It's an obvious dub, because while she's saying it her mouth isn't moving.

(at around 1h 26 mins) The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron).

(at around 1h 40 mins) Just after the collision, as Captain Smith walks to the starboard bridge-wing to look over the side to inspect the damage, the camera's shadow is visible in the bottom-left corner.

When Rose steps onto the railing during the "I'm Flying" sequence, the railing ends at the far right, and a cable dangles over where the railing ends. (widescreen version)

(at around 13 mins) The skids of the camera helicopter are reflected in the window of the helicopter taking Rose and her granddaughter out to the Keldysh.

When Jack is telling Rose about his childhood, the camera moves from a shot of the ship to a shot of them walking along the deck. The shadows of heaps of equipment and people move along the ship as the lights move.

(at around 54 mins) When Jack and Rose are spitting over the deck before dinner, they are on the port side of the ship, and the sun is setting almost directly in front of them. The ship would have to be going northwest, instead of the southwestern course it should be on.

When the Titanic is docked at Southampton, a strip of desert is visible between the dock and the ship.

Jack looks over the railing and sees dolphins swimming along the ship. They're Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, not the Atlantic Bottle-Nosed Dolphins that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.

Aboard the Carpathia, Rose looks up to the Statue of Liberty when sailing into New York. The perspective shown would be impossible aboard a ship. No ship would've been able to get that close to the statue without running into Liberty Island and the fort below the statue's pedestal.

When Rose "flies" from the ship's bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly straight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of April 14, the ship had turned to almost a due west course, placing the setting sun almost straight ahead and slightly to the right.

Whilst demonstrating how to spit, Jack projects a glob of saliva through the air. During those same few seconds, Rose shuts her eyes. Yet when Jack asks, "You see the range on that thing?", Rose claims she did.

When Old Rose is seated in her stateroom on the salvage ship with Lizzy, Boudine comes in to ask if her stateroom's all right and if there's anything she'd like. She replies, "Yes, I'd like to see my drawing." Behind her on the wall, a large banana-shaped boom mic shadow dips down for her line and up again.

Cal tells Rose that she is his wife "in practice, if not by law" and that she'll honor him. When he says "so you will," a shadow of the boom mic is visible. (Open matte 3D version)

Thomas Andrews is portrayed as having a soft Irish 'brogue' type accent. He came from a staunchly Unionist background in Belfast (his brother was the future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) and he would have had an upper class British accent, common among the wealthy landed gentry of the period.

Most of the children have American accents, despite their parents having British and Irish accents.

At the beginning of the movie, Lizzy questions her grandmother's claim that she is the woman in the drawing, Rose Dewitt Bukater. The photographs of Old Rose's life at the end of the movie show her younger, with an uncanny resemblance to the woman in the drawing. It seems strange that Lizzy would never have looked at photos of her grandmother's life before, if she did, she would certainly have noticed the similarity. Lizzy helped her grandmother unpack the pictures in their stateroom when they arrived on the Keldysh, but apparently didn't notice the similarity then, either.

When Lewis Bodine is talking about the moment the iceberg hit the Titanic, he says that it "punched holes like Morse code... below the water line" in the hull. There were many possible factors in the sinking, but the closest to Bodine's statement is that when the iceberg hit, it popped the rivets, causing the hull to open and let the water pour in.

Captain Smith was entitled to the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Decoration (the RD) and the Transport Medal. The actor is wearing the RD suspended from the ribbon of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. His Transport Medal is in fact the Royal Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.