A 1/8 scale model of the ship's stern was also used.

Many of the "core extras" used for the movie took on characteristics of actual survivors -one scene where two little girls are loaded onto a lifeboat and he says "its only for a little while" is based on survivor testimony of one of the girls who survived.


On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were taken ill, many hospitalized with hallucinations. Bill Paxton felt listless for two weeks after the incident.


The last lines spoken by Old Rose, "He exists now only in my memory," are also the last lines in the film Mad Max 2 (1981).


The name of the character Caledon Hockley derives from two small towns (Caledon and Hockley) near Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, where James Cameron's aunt and uncle live.