![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the research team of The Six tracked down descendants of the survivors, some had no idea their relatives had been aboard the ship because they had never spoken about the disaster. Instead, Cameron used the story as inspiration for his final scenes between Jack and Rose as they desperately clung to a floating piece of wood to survive. The true story of Fang's miraculous survival was recreated by James Cameron for his 1998 blockbuster Titanic, but the scene was never included in the final cut. They were then sent to the UK because there was a shortage of sailors, with many enlisted in the army during World War One. But because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, just one day after arriving in New York after the tragedy, the six surviving men were vilified by the press and forced to travel straight for the Caribbean to work on fruit ships. ![]()
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