In absence of a purging agent, he forced himself to vomit before the drug took full effect his blood-shot eyes afterwards frightened other crew members into thinking that it was another side effect of the drug. Initially, shellfish poisoning was suspected, but when James Cameron noticed that one crew member was demanding to see a priest, the director of photography was leading a conga line, and the assistant director was talking to Cameron over a walkie-talkie while looking straight at him (she even stabbed him in the cheek with a pen when he brought this up to her), he realized that the chowder had been spiked with hallucinogenic drugs. 80 people were taken ill, and more than 50 were taken to the hospital (87-year-old Gloria Stuart was fortunately spared because she had dined elsewhere). On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more criminals mixed the dissociative hallucinogen PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew.
Even though Cameron is a huge advocate for computer-generated effects, he admitted that the magic that they captured in camera that day would have been hard, if not impossible to replicate with CGI. Due to all the haste, the shot was slightly out of focus, but Cameron nevertheless considered it the perfect sunset he had been waiting for, and this is the shot that ended up in the movie. James Cameron quickly scrambled the crew together, Kate Winslet was hastily pulled out of make-up, and the scene was finished just before another cloud appeared. But just before the day was about to end, the sky suddenly cleared. The final day had an overcast sky, so no one expected to get a better shot.
The crew resorted to filming rehearsal shots in the hope that conditions would improve the next day. For obvious reasons, there were only a few minutes per day to shoot the scene, but every time, something wasn't quite right. The set had been purposely built at a seaside location to capture natural light, and eight days of filming were available to capture the bow shot kissing scene. (at around 1h 21 mins) During the part where Rose and Jack are on the bow of the ship and Rose says "I'm flying, Jack," the sunset was real and not computer-generated (CGI).
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