Please revive my memory. I haven't seen this in forever.
Yes the dad dies. He goes down with the ship.
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Not in the book he doesn't.
Darn them. I've seen it go both ways in movies--a character dies in the book but not the movie, and vice versa.
In the movie Teri Garr says something to the effect that she has "lost" her husband, but not specifically that he is dead.